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Other Russias : Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity / by B. Baer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baer, Brian James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Communication.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Literature.
- European literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Gender Studies.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Literature.
- European Literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2009.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- This book examines the unprecedented explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia and details how homosexuality has come to signify a surprising and often contradictory array of uniquely post-Soviet concerns.
- Contents:
- Introduction: an embarrassment of meanings
- Russian gays/western gaze: mapping the (homo)sexual landscape of post-Soviet Russia
- Making a spectacle of homosexuality: the problem of gay (in)visibility
- The other within us: homosexual panic and the post-Soviet detectiv
- Resurrecting the spiritual homosexual: homosexuality and the search for a post-Soviet aesthetics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612507717
- 9780230612242
- 9781282507715
- 1282507710
- 9780230620384
- 0230620388
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