Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia
The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent
376 pages, 20 halftones, 5 tables 6 x 9
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2001
Cloth $48.00
ISBN: 9780226322339
Published October 2001
Paper $32.00
ISBN: 9780226322346
Published July 2001
List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I - Same-Sex Eros in Modernizing Russia 1. Depravity's Artel' Traditional Sex Between Men and the Emergence of a Homosexual Subculture 2. "Our Circle" Sex Between Women in Modernizing Russia Part II - Regulating Homosecual Desire in Revolutionary Russia 3. Euphemism and Discretion Policing Sodomites and Tribades 4. The "Queer Subject" and the Language of Modernity Reforming the Law on Same-Sex Love Before and After 1917 5. Perversion or Perversity? Medicine, Politics, and the Regulation of Secual and Gender Dissent after Sodomy Decriminalization 6. "An Infinite Quantity of Intermediate Sexes" The Transvestite and the Cultural Revolution 7. "Can a Homosexual Be a Member of the Communist Party?" The Making of a Soviet Compulsiry Heterosexuality PART III - Homosexual Existence and Existing Socialism 8. "Caught Red-Handed" Making Homosexuality Antisocial in Stalin's Courts Epilogue The Twin Crucibles of the Culag and the Clinic Conclusion Appendix How Many Victims of the Antisodomy Law? Notes Bibliography Index
Awards
- Gladstone History Book Prize
Honorable Mention
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