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Mother Russia in queer peril: the gender logic of the hypermasculine state
The notion of “Mother Russia” has long played a central role in the articulation of Russian statehood. Drawing on Peterson’s “lens of protection,” this chapter interrogates how “Russia as Motherland” has been utilized to help construct a neopaternalist gender regime and state identity via a narrative of existential threat to Mother Russia from an “Unholy Queer Peril.” This narrative highlights the state’s dogmatic adherence to “traditional” understandings of gender and sexuality, and the chapter explores the impact of the perception of a “queer peril” for practices of statecraft, showing how the hypermasculine state’s “fear of queer” becomes both defining and self-defeating as the state’s logic of protection focuses increasingly on ensuring the “correct” performance of gender by state and citizens alike.
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Revisiting gendered states : feminist imaginings of the state in international relationsSeries
Oxford Studies in Gender and International RelationsChapter number
7Pagination
105 - 121Publisher
Oxford University PressPlace of publication
Oxford, Eng.Publisher DOI
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9780190644048ISBN-10
0190644044Edition
1stLanguage
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2018, Oxford University PressExtent
11Editor/Contributor(s)
S Parashar, J Tickner, J TrueUsage metrics
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