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Book SynopsisBy connecting gendered and sexualized citizenship to developments in Russian popular culture, Julie Cassiday argues that heteronormativity and homophobia became a kind of politicized style under Putin’s leadership.
Trade Review“A brilliant, entertaining work of scholarship that sheds light on some of the most important phenomena in contemporary Russian politics and mass culture. Using style as her central concept, Cassiday brings together many seemingly disparate examples from mass media, pop culture, and politics in a way that is truly enlightening.”—Eliot Borenstein, New York University
“Well conceived, researched, and executed,
Russian Style makes an invaluable contribution to the field and to broader discussions of gender, sexuality, and the body in contemporary popular culture. Bringing to the forefront questions of citizenship and national identity, Cassiday thinks through the changes (political, ideological, sexual) that have taken place over the past two decades in Putin’s Russia. ”—Lilya Kaganovsky, UCLA
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A Genealogy of Post-Soviet Pop Performativity
- Chapter 2. The Soviet Legacy of Traumatized Bodies
- Chapter 3. Travesti and the Post-Soviet Drag Queen
- Chapter 4. Queer Performativity in Putin’s Russia
- Chapter 5. Post-Soviet Post-Feminism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
