Dissidences sexuelles et de genre en URSS et dans l’espace postsoviétique = Sexual and Gender Dissent in the USSR and in the post-Soviet space

Healey, D., Stella, F. and Clech, A. (Eds.) (2021) Dissidences sexuelles et de genre en URSS et dans l’espace postsoviétique = Sexual and Gender Dissent in the USSR and in the post-Soviet space. Series: Cahiers du monde russe. Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales: Paris. ISBN 9782713228940

Abstract

The past five years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in the Soviet Union and its successor states.1 This special issue extends our understanding of the history of queer experience in the late Soviet Union and its successor states. Its eight articles balance attention between the Russian “core” and republics on the “periphery” of the USSR: Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Latvia. One article draws attention to Italy, and to the 1970s transnational gay, artistic, and socialist campaigns to liberate film director Sergei Parajanov, whose stellar career encompassed his three Soviet homelands: Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine. The articles explore the ways in which Soviet queer people understood and imagined same-sex desire and gender fluidity.

• Item Type: Edited Books
• Additional Information: Cahiers du Monde Russe No. 62(2-3).
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Stella, Dr Francesca
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
• Publisher: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
• ISBN: 9782713228940