Sex prostitute in komsomolets. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic, changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are eroding or overwhelming previously secure boundaries. The postcommunist moment in the so-called Second World--Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union--has dramatically exposed the opportunities and dangers that arise when the political, cultural, and economic foundations of a society are de- and then re-structured.
Gender roles and relations, expressions of sexuality or attempts to recontain them, representations of the body, especially the female body, and the larger, cultural meanings it assumes, are particularly marked sites to witness the performance of complex national dramas of crisis and change. Age: Are you ready for a night full of sensatations? Are you looking for someone with whom you can spend wonderful moments not only in terms of erotic, but most of all great fun?
Sex in Public examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power.
Drawing on a wide range of sorucesβParty Congress transcripts, the classics of early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports, and early Soviet ventures into popular scienceβthe 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.
