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Author Essig, Laurie, author

Title Queer in Russia : a story of sex, self, and the other / Laurie Essig
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 244 pages) : illustrations
Contents The other -- The Expert Gaze 1: The Law -- The Expert Gaze 2: The Cure -- Self -- Identity Politics and the Politics of Identity -- Queer Subjects and Subjectivities -- Intersections -- Clothes Make the Man: Gender Transgression and Public Queerness -- Patriots and Perverts: The Intersection of National and Sexual Identities -- Sex
Summary As the USSR crumbled in the late 1980s, another transformation was occurring: the Russian iron closet was opening, allowing some of the most invisible members of Russian society to emerge from the shadows of law and psychiatry. This text is a study of this movement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index
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Subject Homosexuality -- Russia (Federation)
Gay people -- Russia (Federation)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Lesbian Studies.
Gay people
Homosexuality
Homosexualität
Homoseksualiteit.
Russia (Federation)
Russland
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98042134
ISBN 9780822379522
082237952X