Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post-Socialism and Gendered Sexualities By Francesca Stella

Vivian Sabrina Lee

doi:10.14324/111.2057-2212.038

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Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post-Socialism and Gendered Sexualities By Francesca Stella

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BOOKS ones are more forceful than at the workplace or on the public streets
Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post-Socialism and Gendered Sexualities By FRANCESCA STELLA. (Palgrave Macmillan Series on Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences). pp. 192
Topics on people’s non-heterosexualities are sometimes regarded as taboo, but Francesca Stella proves to be an exception in her monograph Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post Soviet Russia: Post Socialism and Gendered Sexualities, which investigates the political complexities of Russia’s shifting ideologies that shaped the everyday experiences of non heterosexual women

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BOOKS ones are more forceful than at the workplace or on the public streets. The author highlights that citizens of Ul’ianovsk are more sensitive to homosexuality than in Moscow because of its isolated conditions (p. 101). Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post-Socialism and Gendered Sexualities By FRANCESCA STELLA. (Palgrave Macmillan Series on Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences).

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