02072nam 22004695 450 991078106870332120231213130307.01-282-50771-0978661250771797802306122420-230-62038-8(MiAaPQ)EBC485323(EXLCZ)99255000000000726120160106d2009 u| 0engtxtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierOther Russias[electronic resource] Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity /by B. BaerNew York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2009x, 215 pages illustrations;23 cmDescription based upon print version of record.1-349-37700-7 0-230-61224-5 Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-202) and index.Introduction: an embarrassment of meanings -- Russian gays/western gaze: mapping the (homo)sexual landscape of post-Soviet Russia -- Making a spectacle of homosexuality: the problem of gay (in)visibility -- The other within us: homosexual panic and the post-Soviet detectiv -- Resurrecting the spiritual homosexual: homosexuality and the search for a post-Soviet aesthetics.This book examines the unprecedented explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia and details how homosexuality has come to signify a surprising and often contradictory array of uniquely post-Soviet concerns.HomosexualityRussia (Federation)Gay peopleRussia (Federation)Social conditionsSociologyLiteratureEuropean literatureHomosexualityGay peopleSocial conditions.Sociology.Literature.European literature.306.7660947Baer B15258479910781068703321Other Russias3767474UNINA