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  title info:
    title: Lesbian lives in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia
    sub title: post/socialism and gendered sexualities
  name:
    name part: Stella, Francesca
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 192 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book explores the everyday lives of 'lesbian' women in urban Russia. The first part ('time') examines generational differences between women. It shows how the Soviet system shaped understandings and experiences of same-sex desire, and how same-sex identities and communities have been renegotiated since the demise of state socialism. The second part ('space') attends to regional variation in contemporary Russia, by considering what 'lesbian' life looks like in metropolitan Moscow and in the provincial city of Ul'ianovsk. Francesca Stella details how women negotiate their sexualities across different social spaces (the home, the workplace, the street) and explores how 'lesbian' space is collectively carved out. Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia queries essentialist accounts of Russian sexualities as exceptional and foregrounds gender as key in shaping women's experiences. The book problematizes western-centric theorizations by critically engaging with existing perspectives on queer geotemporalities, post/socialist modernity and the value of public in/visibility.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction : Locating Russian sexualities -- 2. Same-sex sexualities and the Soviet/Post-Soviet gender orders -- 3. Lesbian relationships in late Soviet Russia -- 4. Family matters : negotiating 'home' -- 5. The global closet?: negotiating public space -- 6. Carving out queer space : in/visibility, belonging and resistance -- 7. Conclusions : From Russian to (Post)Socialist sexualities.
  note: Francesca Stella.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ru---
  subject:
    topic: Lesbian feminism
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Lesbian feminist theory
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Lesbian couples
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Same-sex marriage
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Lesbian Studies
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
  classification: HQ75.6.R8 S74 2015
  classification: 306.76/630947
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Genders and sexualities in the social sciences
  identifier: 9781137321237 (hardback)
  identifier: 1137321237 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014029670
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141124
    record change date: 20150325081406.0
    record identifier: in00003519830