Sex in Public

Eric Naiman is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Acknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration, Citation, and Translation xi INTRODUCTION 3 Menstruation and a New Pair of Glasses 3 Approaching NEP: Ideological Anxieties and the "Unarmed Eye" 5 Utopia and Its Infections 12 Sacrificing Culture / Reading Ideology 16 Things to Come 25 CHAPTER ONE The Creation of the Collective Body 27 Utopia, Misogyny, and the Russian Philosophical Tradition 27 The Signification of Sex 45 Fantasies of the War Communist Body 57 CHAPTER TWO "Let Them Penetrate!": Strategies against Dismemberment 79 CHAPTER THREE The Discourse of Castration 124 CHAPTER FOUR Behind the Red Door: An Introduction to NEP Gothic 148 CHAPTER FIVE NEP as Female Complaint (I): The Tragedy of Woman 181 CHAPTER SIX NEP as Female Complaint (II): Revolutionary Anorexia 208 CHAPTER SEVEN The Case of Chubarov Alley: Collective Rape and Utopian Desire 250 The "Facts" of the Case 250 The Corruption of the Innocent 257 The Corruption of the Experienced 263 Ideological Resonance 266 CONCLUSION 289 Index 301