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Mother Russia in queer peril: the gender logic of the hypermasculine state

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posted on 2018-01-01, 00:00 authored by Cai WilkinsonCai Wilkinson
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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Title of book

Revisiting gendered states : feminist imaginings of the state in international relations

Series

Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

Chapter number

7

Pagination

105 - 121

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Place of publication

Oxford, Eng.

ISBN-13

9780190644048

ISBN-10

0190644044

Edition

1st

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2018, Oxford University Press

Extent

11

Editor/Contributor(s)

S Parashar, J Tickner, J True

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