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The international politics of sex : bodies, images, and Russian state homophobia / Dean Cooper-Cunningham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper-Cunningham, Dean, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in gender and international relations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homophobia--Russia.
- Homophobia.
- Homosexuality--Government policy--Russia (Federation).
- Homosexuality.
- Sexual minorities--Government policy--Russia.
- Sexual minorities.
- Gay activists.
- Homosexuality--Europe.
- Homosexuality--Government policy.
- Europe.
- Russia (Federation).
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color).
- Other Title:
- Bodies, images, and Russian state homophobia
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Integrating queer theory into visual international relations scholarship, this volume examines the ways in which sex, sexual shame, and stigma play into international power games. Using Russian state homophobia and the international response as a case study, the author illustrates the dynamics through which sex comes to matter geopolitically: namely, through moralising policies that carve out international hierarchies. In recent decades, Russia has consistently constructed Europe and the West as 'Gayropa' in its foreign policy discourse, arguing that this Gayropean space and its values threaten Russian national security and cultural sovereignty. Indeed, Putin's speeches have legitimised the war in Ukraine as a mission to save the country from decadent Europeanisation. To understand this, Cooper-Cunningham introduces the concept of heteronormative internationalism.
- Contents:
- The international politics of sexual shame and stigma
- Words-images-bodies: a tripartite approach
- There weren’t always rainbows: a visual genealogy of queer activism
- Dominant representations of queer life in Russia
- Alternative visualisations of queer life in Russia
- Bodies, rainbows, and the politics of visibility
- The queer politics of play and Gay Clown Putin memes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed April 24, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Cooper-Cunningham, Dean. international politics of sex.
- ISBN:
- 9780197792544
- 0197792545
- 9780197792520
- 0197792529
- 9780197792537
- 0197792537
- OCLC:
- 1550242256
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000316890
- CIPO000351835
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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