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Same-Sex Sexualities and the Soviet/Post-Soviet Gender Orders

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Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences ((GSSS))

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The chapter offers a contextual socio-historical background to the empirical chapters that follow, by charting shifting discourses on sex and sexualities across Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. More specifically, I consider the normativities they produced and their implications for non-heterosexual citizens.

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Stella, F. (2015). Same-Sex Sexualities and the Soviet/Post-Soviet Gender Orders. In: Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137321244_2

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137321244_2

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-349-67266-0

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-137-32124-4

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