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"There Is No Sex in the USSR": Sex, Soviet Identity, and Glasnost, 1986-1991- [electronic resource]
"There Is No Sex in the USSR": Sex, Soviet Identity, and Glasnost, 1986-1991- [electronic resource]
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214102125
- ISBN
- 9798380370592
- DDC
- 305
- 서명/저자
- There Is No Sex in the USSR: Sex, Soviet Identity, and Glasnost, 1986-1991 - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : The Ohio State University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(308 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Hoffmann, David;Breyfogle, Nicholas.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약For most of Soviet history, sex and sexuality were forbidden topics. The official state position was that sex was primarily a means to an end: the conception of future Soviet generations. The state enforced this hushed tenet by restricting discourses on sex in film, the press, and medical journals. However, Gorbachev's glasnost ("openness") policy relaxed censorship and allowed Soviet people to explore the role of sex in society openly. Between 1986 and 1991, the USSR saw an unprecedented explosion of public discussions on sex and sexuality among journalists, filmmakers, medical clinicians, policy makers, activists, and others interested in the topic. Soviet researchers unearthed realities that the state had attempted to conceal, such as rampant prostitution, sexually transmitted disease (STDs), and high rates of sexual violence.This dissertation argues that a sexual revolution took place in the USSR between 1986 and 1991, due in large part to glasnost. The sexual revolution was mainly a discursive one, in which glasnost allowed journalists, artists, filmmakers, writers, academics, activists, and medical clinicians to publicly debate the terms of sexual citizenship through artistic depictions, medical and sociological studies, legislative decisions, news discourse, and independent publishing. However, the Soviet sexual revolution also brought about discernable changes in sexual behaviors and identities. Some people began to see sexual freedom as a vital aspect of a wider social and political liberation within Soviet society. And when they could not reconcile sexual liberation with the Soviet system, these people began to envision alternatives. Thus, my dissertation explores the Soviet sexual revolution and evaluates its form and function.I show throughout this project that sexual liberation and gender equality could not be achieved within the confines of the Soviet system. As many people, especially LGBT+ activists, came to believe (and express), liberation required scrapping the system entirely rather than continuing reform efforts. There continued to be official efforts to suppress sexual liberation and gender equality through state initiatives to limit abortion, tighten restrictions on pornography and erotica, crackdowns on the LGBT+ community in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and renewed efforts to inculcate youth into the conjugal, reproductive sphere. All these state initiatives convinced many reform-minded individuals that the Soviet system's moralistic position on sexuality could not be reformed. As this dissertation shows, official Soviet reform never sought to dismantle the sexual-moral matrix that was established under Stalinism, and those who attempted to change the system met with constant roadblocks.
- 일반주제명
- Gender studies.
- 일반주제명
- Russian history.
- 일반주제명
- European history.
- 일반주제명
- LGBTQ studies.
- 일반주제명
- Sexuality.
- 키워드
- Soviet Union
- 키워드
- Soviet history
- 키워드
- Perestroika
- 키워드
- Glasnost
- 키워드
- Forbidden topics
- 기타저자
- The Ohio State University History
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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