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Russian Sexual Politics : The Day of Family, Love and Fidelity Mayhew, Nick

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Co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster. This talk explores a national festival that was instated across the Russian Federation in 2008, the “Day of Family, Love and Fidelity” (День семьи, любви и верности). The celebration falls on July 8, which had long been the feast day of the married Orthodox saints Petr and Fevroniia. Both the saints and the festival have become a rallying point in Russia’s campaign for supposedly “traditional” family values and against supposedly “non-traditional sexual relations”. This talk explores how Orthodox culture is being harnessed to entrench a patriarchal view of “tradition” that extends beyond the confines of church walls to unite Russian citizens of different faiths.

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Russian Sexual Politics : The Day of Family, Love and Fidelity
Creator
Mayhew, Nick
Contributor
University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies; University of British Columbia. Public Humanities Hub
Date Issued
2021-03-16
Description
Co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster. This talk explores a national festival that was instated across the Russian Federation in 2008, the “Day of Family, Love and Fidelity” (День семьи, любви и верности). The celebration falls on July 8, which had long been the feast day of the married Orthodox saints Petr and Fevroniia. Both the saints and the festival have become a rallying point in Russia’s campaign for supposedly “traditional” family values and against supposedly “non-traditional sexual relations”. This talk explores how Orthodox culture is being harnessed to entrench a patriarchal view of “tradition” that extends beyond the confines of church walls to unite Russian citizens of different faiths.
Subject
Russian history; middle ages; Orthodoxy; Russian politics; queer studies
Type
Sound; Moving Image
Language
eng
Series
Sawchen lecture series
Date Available
2021-03-23
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0396333
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/77587
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Postdoctoral
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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