{"product_id":"regulating-homosexuality-in-soviet-russia-1956-91-a-different-history-9781526155764","title":"Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ground-breaking book challenges the widespread view that sex and homosexuality were unmentionable in the USSR. The Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras (1956–82) have remained obscure and unexplored from this perspective. Drawing on previously undiscovered sources, Alexander fills in this critical gap. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book reveals that from 1956 to 1991, doctors, educators, jurists and police officers discussed homosexuality. At the heart of discussions were questions which directly affected the lives of homosexual people in the USSR. Was homosexuality a crime, disease or a normal variant of human sexuality? Should lesbianism be criminalised? Could sex education prevent homosexuality? What role did the GULAG and prisons play in homosexuality across the USSR? These discussions often had practical implications – doctors designed and offered medical treatments for homosexuality in hospitals, and procedures and medications were also used in prisons.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Homosexuality in the Soviet GULAG (1956–59)\u003cbr\u003e2 Same-sex desire and sex education under Khrushchev (1956–64)\u003cbr\u003e3 From sodomy to homosexuality: same-sex desire and the rise of Soviet sexopathology  in the 1960s\u003cbr\u003e4 Soviet legal and criminological debates on the decriminalisation of homosexuality  (1959–75)\u003cbr\u003e5 Between disease and crime: sexopathology and prison homosexuality (1970–80)\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041020084567,"sku":"9781526155764","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526155764.jpg?v=1750948626","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/regulating-homosexuality-in-soviet-russia-1956-91-a-different-history-9781526155764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}