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1. Rewriting the future: The construction of masculine subjectivity within articulations of Russia's postSoviet national
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Rewriting the future: The construction of masculine subjectivity within articulations of Russia's postSoviet national Idea
Author: Nowakowski, Arianna L.
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Abstract: This dissertation evaluates the construction, negotiation, and contestation of masculine Subjectivity
within articulations of Russia's post-Soviet national Idea. As Russia endeavors to define itself after years of
turmoil and strife, gender identities have become deeply enmeshed in understandings of quintessential
Russianness. From discourses of the state under Vladimir Putin to those of the Russian Orthodox Church,
actors with significant social and political power have constructed particular understandings of what it means to
be Russian, and in so doing, have delineated the parameters of normal, or natural gender identities and
sexualities for men.
Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, and others, I analyze the ways in
which male corporeality is articulated as an embodiment of the nation, and point to the consequences of
articulations that serve to "naturalize" or "normalize" certain masculinities over others. Many of the discourses
under consideration have constructed a gendered conceptualization of Russia's national Idea by mythologizing
nostalgic signifiers of the past and orienting them toward a future ideal in a way that finalizes the meanings of
such signifiers and makes them appear to be eternal and authentically Russian. Combined, such discourses
constitute a national Idea that serves to monologize conceptions of masculinity, reducing them to an artificial
essentialism. Yet perhaps most importantly, this work demonstrates the constructed and unfinalizable nature of
imposed identities--and the ability, through creative discursive mechanisms such as literature and film, to push
back against the establishment and resist the centripetal forces of "traditional" modernity.
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Subject: GLBT Studies; International Relations; Russian history; Gender studies;
Classification: 0492: GLBT Studies; 0601: International Relations; 0724: Russian history; 0733: Gender
studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Discourse, Gender, Lacan, Jacques, Masculinity, Performativity, Russia
Number of pages: 231
Publication year: 2012
Degree date: 2012
School code: 0061
Source: DAI-A 73/10(E), Apr 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781267413048
Advisor: Adelman, Jonathan
Committee member: Beaudoin, Luc, Donnelly, Jack
University/institution: University of Denver

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Department: Josef Korbel School of International Studies

University location: United States -- Colorado
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3512385
ProQuest document ID: 1024139667
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