Sex Work in Contemporary Russia - Emily Schuckman Matthews

Sex Work in Contemporary Russia

A Cultural Perspective
Buch | Hardcover
292 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1594-5 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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.

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
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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