Separatism and Integration in Feminist Russian Punk

• In Event: Late/Post-Soviet Media Networks and Gender Technologies

Abstract

This paper describes the cultural strategies of Russian feminist punks as they rejected male domination in both mainstream culture and their music scene. Though choosing between separatism and integration, female punks engaged in similar practices of confessional self-fashioning, discovery (or unmasking) of predecessors, and moral entrepreneurship. I focus on the significant power ascribed to language in these strategies, considering zines, music lyrics and other textual production.

Author

• Ania Aizman, U of Chicago