Sex Work in Contemporary Russia
A Cultural Perspective
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1594-5 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1594-5 (ISBN)
Sex Work in Russia: A Cultural Perspective analyzes the figure of the female sex worker in Russia’s cultural imagination from the early twentieth century to today. This book offers critical insights into the significance of this character and women’s lives in Russia.
Sex Work in Russia weaves together a wide range of materials to examine the figure of the female sex worker in Russia from the early twentieth century to the present day. This book offers readers both an expansive and nuanced discussion of the significance of this archetypal female who appears with remarkable frequency in literature, film, and other cultural productions. Emily Schuckman Matthews explores the ways in which the fictional sex worker (and her real-life counterpart) has become a symbolic representative of social and moral instability, economic volatility, political, social, and ideological revolutions, and changing concepts of gender, sexuality, and the nation itself. Focus is given to the movement of the female sex worker from marginal foil to a hero in her own right, even finding a voice of her own in recent years. Works featuring this alluring and complex figure reveal critical insights into the changing position of women and other marginalized people in a volatile Russia.
Sex Work in Russia weaves together a wide range of materials to examine the figure of the female sex worker in Russia from the early twentieth century to the present day. This book offers readers both an expansive and nuanced discussion of the significance of this archetypal female who appears with remarkable frequency in literature, film, and other cultural productions. Emily Schuckman Matthews explores the ways in which the fictional sex worker (and her real-life counterpart) has become a symbolic representative of social and moral instability, economic volatility, political, social, and ideological revolutions, and changing concepts of gender, sexuality, and the nation itself. Focus is given to the movement of the female sex worker from marginal foil to a hero in her own right, even finding a voice of her own in recent years. Works featuring this alluring and complex figure reveal critical insights into the changing position of women and other marginalized people in a volatile Russia.
Emily Schuckman Matthews is associate professor of European studies at San Diego State University.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sex Work in Early Soviet Literature and Film
Chapter 2: The Sex Worker in the Late-Soviet Period and the Turbulent 1990s
Chapter 3: Doubly Other: The Sex Worker as Lesbian
Chapter 4: Searching for Russia’s Moral Center: Sex Work in Provincial Russia
Chapter 5: The Madam as Working Mother
Chapter 6: From Intergirl to Instagirl: The Sex Worker as Aspirational Figure
Chapter 7: Sex Workers and the Art of Their Experience
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-1594-7 / 1666915947 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-1594-5 / 9781666915945 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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