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Sex in public : the incarnation of early Soviet ideology
- Title
- Sex in public : the incarnation of early Soviet ideology / Eric Naiman.
- Author
- Naiman, Eric, 1958-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
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- Description
- x, 307 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Sex in Public examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power. Drawing on a wide range of sources - Party Congress transcripts, the classics of early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports, and early Soviet ventures into popular science - the author seeks to explain the period's preoccupation with crime, disease, and, especially, sex.
- Using strategies of reading developed by literary scholars, he devotes special care to exploring the role of narrative in authoritative political texts. The book breaks new ground in its attention to the ideological importance of the female body during this important formative stage of Bolshevik rule.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The Creation of the Collective Body -- Ch. 2. "Let Them Penetrate!": Strategies against Dismemberment -- Ch. 3. The Discourse of Castration -- Ch. 4. Behind the Red Door: An Introduction to NEP Gothic -- Ch. 5. NEP as Female Complaint (I): The Tragedy of Woman -- Ch. 6. NEP as Female Complaint (II): Revolutionary Anorexia -- Ch. 7. The Case of Chubarov Alley: Collective Rape and Utopian Desire.
- ISBN
- 0691026262 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780691026251 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96043642
- OCLC
- ocm35450552
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries