I consider this 2004 essay somewhat outdated, being the first attempt to enter the territory of Bolshevik-Soviet gender politics, culture, and identity that was predictably schematic. A more thoroughly theorized conceptualization of the... more
I consider this 2004 essay somewhat outdated, being the first attempt to enter the territory of Bolshevik-Soviet gender politics, culture, and identity that was predictably schematic. A more thoroughly theorized conceptualization of the Soviet gender politics, gendered identities, and what the case of Bolshevik socialist feminism and Soviet non-binary (as well as binary) conceptualizations of heterosexual subjectivity/difference has to offer to gender theory and history is developed in “Introduction” to Soviet Women in Combat (2010); “Gender Binary: The Limits of Poststructuralist Method” [mainly the introduction section and the last, fourth section] (2016); and “Socialist Feminism: Gender Agendas of Communism,” (forthcoming, 2017).
