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Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism

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Availability:In StockContributor:Julie A. CassidayPublish date:2023-12-19Pages:270
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299346706ISBN-10:299346706UPC:9780299346706Book Category:History, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Russia, Gender Studies, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Post-Soviet, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCCZRP0DTH
In the two decades after the turn of the millennium, Vladimir Putin's control over Russian politics and society grew at a steady pace. As the West liberalized its stance on sexuality and gender, Putin's Russia moved in the opposite direction, remolding the performance of Russian citizenship according to a neoconservative agenda characterized by increasingly exaggerated gender roles. By connecting gendered and sexualized citizenship to developments in Russian popular culture, Julie A. Cassiday argues that heteronormativity and homophobia became a kind of politicized style under Putin's leadership.

However, while the multiple modes of gender performativity generated in Russian popular culture between 2000 and 2010 supported Putin's neoconservative agenda, they also helped citizens resist and protest the state's mandate of heteronormativity. Examining everything from memes to the Eurovision Song Contest and self-help literature, Cassiday untangles the discourse of gender to argue that drag, or travesti, became the performative trope par excellence in Putin's Russia. Provocatively, Cassiday further argues that the exaggerated expressions of gender demanded by Putin's regime are best understood as a form of cisgender drag. This smart and lively study provides critical, nuanced analysis of the relationship between popular culture and politics in Russia during Putin's first two decades in power.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299346706ISBN-10:299346706UPC:9780299346706Book Category:History, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Russia, Gender Studies, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Post-Soviet, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCCZRP0DTH
Julie A. Cassiday is the Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian at Williams College. She is the author of The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen and the coeditor of Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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