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- Publication Name
- Cornell University Press
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- 9780875803715
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0875803717
ISBN-13
9780875803715
eBay Product ID (ePID)
56974414
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dictatorship of Sex : Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / Eastern, Gender Studies, Customs & Traditions
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Book Series
Niu Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-026557
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Frances Bernstein, in her excellent book on the sex question in the early decades of the Soviet experiment, makes a convincing case for the centrality of sexual enlightenment--in both its discursive and its institutional manifestations--in the project of creating a Communist society populated with newly transformed Soviet citizens. Her discussion of the relationship among state goals, the emergence of new medical institutions, and the representations, whether textual or visual, of Soviet sexual enlightenment will engross anyone who is interested in how the state and its institutions regulated behavior in the process of creating the new Soviet man, woman, and child., ""A valuable contribution... will be of interest to a number of audiences-from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine."--Canadian Journal of History "Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive."--The Russian Review "Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public."--Slavic Review "Frances Bernstein, in her excellent book on the sex question in the early decades of the Soviet experiment, makes a convincing case for the centrality of sexual enlightenment-in both its discursive and its institutional manifestations-in the project of creating a Communist society populated with newly transformed Soviet citizens. Her discussion of the relationship among state goals, the emergence of new medical institutions, and the representations, whether textual or visual, of Soviet sexual enlightenment will engross anyone who is interested in how the state and its institutions regulated behavior in the process of creating the new Soviet man, woman, and child."--Journal of the History of Sexuality", "A valuable contribution ... will be of interest to a number of audiences-from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine."- Canadian Journal of History "Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive."- The Russian Review "Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading ... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public."- Slavic Review, "A valuable contribution ... will be of interest to a number of audiences-from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine."- Canadian Journal of History "Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive."- The Russian Review "Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading ... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public."- Slavic Review "Frances Bernstein, in her excellent book on the sex question in the early decades of the Soviet experiment, makes a convincing case for the centrality of sexual enlightenment-in both its discursive and its institutional manifestations-in the project of creating a Communist society populated with newly transformed Soviet citizens. Her discussion of the relationship among state goals, the emergence of new medical institutions, and the representations, whether textual or visual, of Soviet sexual enlightenment will engross anyone who is interested in how the state and its institutions regulated behavior in the process of creating the new Soviet man, woman, and child."-Journal of the History of Sexuality, Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public., "A valuable contribution ... will be of interest to a number of audiences--from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine."-- Canadian Journal of History "Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive."-- The Russian Review "Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading ... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public."-- Slavic Review "Frances Bernstein, in her excellent book on the sex question in the early decades of the Soviet experiment, makes a convincing case for the centrality of sexual enlightenment--in both its discursive and its institutional manifestations--in the project of creating a Communist society populated with newly transformed Soviet citizens. Her discussion of the relationship among state goals, the emergence of new medical institutions, and the representations, whether textual or visual, of Soviet sexual enlightenment will engross anyone who is interested in how the state and its institutions regulated behavior in the process of creating the new Soviet man, woman, and child."--Journal of the History of Sexuality, A valuable contribution.... will be of interest to a number of audiences--from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
306.77094709042
Table Of Content
Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1: Disciplining the Sex Question in Revolutionary Russia 2: Making Sex 3: "Nervous People" 4: Envisioning Health 5: Conserving Soviet Power 6: Doctors without Boudoirs Conclusion Abbreviations List Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. It is the first book to examine Soviet "sexual enlightenment," a program of popular health and lifestyle advice intended to establish a model of sexual conduct for the men and women who would build socialism. Leftist social theorists and political activists had long envisioned an egalitarian utopia, and after 1917, the medical profession took the leading role in solving the sex question (while at the same time carving out a niche for itself among postrevolutionary social institutions). Frances Bernstein reveals the tension between the doctors' advocacy for relatively liberal social policy and the generally proscriptive nature of their advice, as well as their lack of interest in questions of personal pleasure, fulfillment, and sexual expression. While supporting the goals of the Soviet state, the enlighteners appealed to "irrefutable" biological truths that ultimately supported a very traditional gender regime. The Dictatorship of Sex offers a unique lens through which to contemplate a central conundrum of Russian history: the relationship between the supposedly "liberated" 1920s and "repressive" 1930s. Although most of the proponents of sexual enlightenment in the 1920s would suffer greatly during Stalin's purges, their writings facilitated the Stalinist approach to sexuality and the family. Bernstein's book will interest historians of Russia, gender, sexuality, and medicine, as well as anyone curious about social and ideological experiments in a revolutionary culture., The Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. It is the first book to examine Soviet "sexual enlightenment," a program of popular health and lifestyle advice intended to establish a model of sexual conduct for the men and women who would build socialism. Leftist social theorists and political activists had long envisioned an egalitarian utopia, and after 1917, the medical profession took the leading role in solving the sex question (while at the same time carving out a niche for itself among postrevolutionary social institutions). Frances Bernstein reveals the tension between the doctors' advocacy for relatively liberal social policy and the generally proscriptive nature of their advice, as well as their lack of interest in questions of personal pleasure, fulfillment, and sexual expression. While supporting the goals of the Soviet state, the enlighteners appealed to 'irrefutable' biological truths that ultimately supported a very traditional gender regime. The Dictatorship of Sex offers a unique lens through which to contemplate a central conundrum of Russian history: the relationship between the supposedly 'liberated' 1920s and 'repressive' 1930s. Although most of the proponents of sexual enlightenment in the 1920s would suffer greatly during Stalin's purges, their writings facilitated the Stalinist approach to sexuality and the family. Bernstein's book will interest historians of Russia, gender, sexuality, and medicine, as well as anyone curious about social and ideological experiments in a revolutionary culture., The Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. It is the first book to examine Soviet sexual enlightenment, a program of popular health and lifestyle advice intended to establish a model of sexual conduct for the men and women who would build socialism. Leftist social theorists and political activists had long envisioned an egalitarian utopia, and after 1917, the medical profession took the leading role in solving the sex question (while at the same time carving out a niche for itself among post-revolutionary social institutions). Frances Bernstein reveals the tension between the doctors' advocacy for relatively liberal social policy and the generally proscriptive nature of their advice, as well as their lack of interest in questions of personal pleasure, fulfillment, and sexual expression. While supporting the goals of the Soviet state, the enlighteners appealed to 'irrefutable' biological truths that ultimately supported a very traditional gender regime. central conundrum of Russian history: the relationship between the supposedly 'liberated' 1920s and 'repressive' 1930s. Although most of the proponents of sexual enlightenment in the 1920s would suffer greatly during Stalin's purges, their writings facilitated the Stalinist approach to sexuality and the family. Bernstein's book will interest historians of Russia, gender, sexuality, and medicine, as well as anyone curious about social and ideological experiments in a revolutionary culture.
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