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Post-Soviet Sexuality and Gender Dynamics in Russian Culture

Mon, November 25, 10:00 to 11:45am, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, Floor: LB2, Salon 7

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This presentation will explore the sexuality and gender dynamics in Post-Soviet Russian culture, drawing on representative examples from film and media. Two main questions will be addressed: 1) how does the Soviet legacy shape these dynamics and does it mark them as uniquely Russian?; and 2) are these dynamics similar to or different from the Western cultural sexualities and gender developments in the last two-three decades, as the West is generally understood as a cultural space separated from the Soviet Union by the Iron Curtain? My discussion will be guided by post-communist theory and cultural psychoanalysis.

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