The Man Question : Loves and Lives in Late 20th Century Russia
Мужской вопрос: любовь и жизнь в России конца XX века
2000-01-01
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4 The frailty of the heterosexual relation 78 4.1 The obligation of marrying Reasons for marrying: Getting away -Pregnancy 4.2 Variations on the norm Nina's story -Reasons for not marrying -Divorces: The rocks of everyday life -Emotional abandonment -Illegal abortions -Second chances 4.3 Love of children `Becoming my own mother' -Longing for a second child -Which basic instinct? -Summary V 8 Working poor: social marginality and sexual promiscuity 8.1 Discussing the margins Workers, lumpens and the rest 8.2 Postwar promiscuity Ivanov, the taxi driver -Problems of reliability -Fallen women and social ascent -Sexual blat and prostitution -Muzhik or knight? 8.3 Suburban gang culture In the cellar -Attempts at social ascent -Misogyny and male bonding 8.4 From acculturation to blurred mobility 9 The behavioural revolution of the 1970s 9.1 Loving with and without words Learned ignorance -Same-sex love: consent in action and discursive consent 9.2 Milieu, subculture, hegemony...? PART III THE MAN QUESTION 10 Monetarization of family life 10.1 From dual employees to family entrepreneurship 10.2 Fissures in the Soviet life course Housewives and singles -The taxi driver, the DJ and the New Age therapeut 10.3 The man question -a geological shift? Men's stress -Anxious masculinization 11 Articulation of sexuality 11.1 Going public In search of consensus -Sexual enlightenment -Family planning -Resisting sexual violence 11.2. Hyphenated intimacy Naturalization of sexuality -Psychological quests -Feminist and homosexual identities 11.2 Is there love in Russia? Commercial sex -Fairytale castles Conclusion
Key Findings
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It argues that monetization transformed family life, producing family entrepreneurship, altered Soviet life-course expectations, increased male stress, and anxious masculinization.
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It links working-class marginality to sexual promiscuity, prostitution, social mobility strategies, suburban gang culture, misogyny, and male bonding.
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The abstract identifies a behavioral revolution in the 1970s involving changing sexual communication, consent—including same-sex consent—and the emergence of subcultures.
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The study traces the public articulation of sexuality through sexual education, family planning, resistance to sexual violence, psychological self-exploration, feminist and homosexual identities, and commercial sex.
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The work examines heterosexual relationships, marriage obligations, divorce, emotional abandonment, abortion, and changing patterns of parenthood in late twentieth-century Russia.
Research Object
Heterosexual relationships, family life, sexuality, and masculinities in late 20th-century Russia
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The transformation of intimate, marital, sexual, and gender relations under social and economic change, including marriage practices, divorce, family formation, sexual behavior, marginality, and anxious masculinization
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