‘Russian Love,’ or What of Lesbian Studies in Russia?

Nartova, Nadya

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“…More to the point, Nadia Nartova (2007), a queer sociologist, described gay and lesbian studies in post-Soviet Russia as mainly concentrated in new gender studies departments supported by international funds and institutions. Though her view is pessimistic, she has documented several important studies in queer 88 The Sage Handbook of Global Sexualities sociology.…”

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The Queer Epistemologies: Challenges to the Modes of Knowing about Sexuality in Russia

Kondakov¹

2020

The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities

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The Queer Epistemologies: Challenges to the Modes of Knowing about Sexuality in Russia

Kondakov¹

2020

The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities

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“…The article also contributes to the literature examining issues related to sexual orientation and identity in Russia (Essig, 1999;Healey, 2018;Kon, 1997;Kondakov, 2014Kondakov, , 2019Nartova, 2007;Schluter, 2002;Stella, 2013Stella, , 2015Tuller, 1996). It further adds to the literature investigating the activism of LGBT Russians.…”

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LGBT Russians and Political Environment for Activism

Buyantueva

2021

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

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This article examines the impact of external and internal state policies on Russian LGBT activism. Drawing on the political opportunity structure (POS) framework, it focuses on the analysis of two factors (the level of state repression on LGBT people and the direction of state foreign policy) and their impact on LGBT activism. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia’s goal for closer relations with the West facilitated the decrease of pressure on LGBT people. That created positive conditions for LGBT activism. Since the late 1990s, however, Russia’s direction in foreign policy has become more assertive. That has facilitated the increase in state repression on LGBT people and activists. Such negative changes in POS have posed challenges for LGBT activism complicating its further development.

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“…The latter reflected institutionalised homophobia and state sanctioned stigmatisation of non-heteronormative sexualities: male same-sex relations were a criminal offence in Russia until 1993, while lesbianism was labelled a medical condition (Healey 2001). Only recently has research on homosexuality begun to be undertaken in Russia within social sciences disciplines (Temkina and Zdravomyslova 2002;Nartova 2007).…”

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The Language of Intersectionality: Researching ‘Lesbian’ Identity in Urban Russia

Stella¹

2010

Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality

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IntroductionThe relationship between identity, lived experience, sexual practices and the language through which these are conveyed has been widely debated in sexuality literature. For example, 'coming out' has famously been conceptualised as a 'speech act' (Sedgwick 1990) and as a collective narrative (Plummer 1995), while a growing concern for individuals' diverse identifications in relations to their sexual and gender practices has produced interesting research focusing on linguistic practices among LGBT-identified individuals (Leap 1995;Kulick 2000;Cameron and Kulick 2006; Farqhar 2000). While an explicit focus on language remains marginal to literature on sexualities (Kulick 2000), issue of language use and translation are seldom explicitly addressed in the growing literature on intersectionality. Yet intersectional perspectives 'reject the separability of analytical and identity categories ' (McCall 2005' (McCall :1771, and therefore have an implicit stake in the 'vernacular' language of the researched, in the 'scientific' language of the researcher and in the relationship of continuity between the two.Drawing on literature within gay and lesbian/queer studies and cross-cultural studies, this chapter revisits debates on sexuality, language and intersectionality. I argue for the importance of giving careful consideration to the language we choose to use as researchers to collectively define the people whose experiences we try to capture. I also propose that language itself can be investigated as a productive way to foreground how individual and collective identifications are discursively constructed, and to unpack the diversity of lived experience. I address intersectional complexity as a methodological issue, where methodology is understood not only as the methods and practicalities of doing research, but more broadly as 'a coherent set of ideas about the philosophy, 2 methods and data that underlie the research process and the production of knowledge' (McCall 2005(McCall :1774.My points are illustrated with examples drawn from my ethnographic study on 'lesbian' identity in urban Russia, interspersed with insights from existing literature. In particular, I aim to show that an explicit focus on language can be a productive way to explore the intersections between the global, the national and the local in cross-cultural research on sexuality, while also addressing issues of positionality and accountability to the communities researched. The first section of the chapter contextualises my concern with language within broader debates on sexuality, identity and intersectionality, and is for this reason, my interviewees are perhaps best collectively referred to as nonheterosexual. In the title and elsewhere, I use the gender-specific 'lesbian' (in inverted commas, and as opposed to the gender-neutral queer) as a shorthand to refer to the broad spectrum of non-heteronormative identifications and practices represented in my study. I occasionally use more specifically the labels lesbian, straight and bisexual 3 (w...

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‘Russian Love,’ or What of Lesbian Studies in Russia?

Abstract: This piece discusses the problems attending to the development of Lesbian Studies in Russia.

Cited by 8 publications

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The Queer Epistemologies: Challenges to the Modes of Knowing about Sexuality in Russia

The Queer Epistemologies: Challenges to the Modes of Knowing about Sexuality in Russia

LGBT Russians and Political Environment for Activism

The Language of Intersectionality: Researching ‘Lesbian’ Identity in Urban Russia

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