Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Francesca Stella is Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has held an ESRC postdoctoral research fellowship and worked as a lecturer at the University of Glasgow across the subject areas of Sociology and Russian Studies. Her publications include articles in Europe-Asia Studies and Slavic Review.

1. Introduction: Locating Russian Sexualities 2. Same-Sex Sexualities and the Soviet/Post-Soviet Gender Orders 3. Lesbian Relationships in Late Soviet Russia 4. Family Matters: Negotiating 'Home' 5. The Global Closet? Negotiating Public Space 6. Carving Out Queer Space: In/Visibility, Belonging and Resistance 7. Conclusions: From Russian to (Post)Socialist Sexualities