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Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures - From the Bad to the Blasphemous (Hardcover)
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Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures - From the Bad to the Blasphemous (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
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Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted "crimes" and implied
sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot, the most famous
Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive
Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to
Blasphemous examine what constitutes bad social and political
behavior for women in Russia, Poland, and the Balkans, and how and
to what effect female performers, activists, and fictional
characters have indulged in such behavior. The chapters in this
edited collection argue against the popular perceptions of Slavic
cultures as overwhelmingly patriarchal and Slavic women as
complicit in their own repression, contextualizing proto-feminist
and feminist transgressive acts in these cultures. Each essay
offers a close reading of the transgressive texts that women
authored or in which they figured, showing how they navigated,
targeted, and, in some cases, co-opted these obstacles in their bid
for agency and power. Topics include studies of how female
performers in Poland and Russia were licensed to be bad (for
effective comedy and popular/box office appeal), analyses of how
women in film and fiction dare sacrilegious behavior in their
prescribed roles as daughters and mothers, and examples of feminist
political subversion through social activism and performance art.
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