| Title |
Sexual revolution, mobilization or civil war: how to understand the Soviet transformation of sexuality (the case of Soviet Lithuania) / |
| Authors |
Vaiseta, Tomas ; Klumbys, Valdemaras |
| DOI |
10.25143/amhr.2023.XVI.03 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Acta medico-historica Rigensia.. Rīga : Riga Stradiņš University and Pauls Stradins Museum of History of Medicine. 2023, vol. 16, p. 67-99.. ISSN 1022-8012. eISSN 2592-818X |
| Keywords [eng] |
Soviet Lithuania ; sexual civil war ; sexual mobilization ; sexuality ; sexual revolution |
| Abstract [eng] |
The article raises a question whether the concept of sexual revolution could be applied to the changes of sexuality in the Soviet Union. The case of one of the republics of the USSR, Soviet Lithuania is analysed. The dynamics of sexual policy, norms and behaviour that took place in 1944–1990 are examined to demonstrate what problems arise when applying the concept of the sexual revolution and a new solution is offered – the concept of sexual civil war. It is argued that this new concept points to implications that contradict the sexual revolution: the changes of sexuality are elongated and viscous, the conflicting traditional and modern norms and behaviour can overlap or entrench in separate social and cultural groups to create a kind of stalemate. Therefore the concept of sexual civil war does not stress on the changes themselves but a particular conflict in the process of a transformation of sexuality. |
| Published |
Rīga : Riga Stradiņš University and Pauls Stradins Museum of History of Medicine |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2023 |
| CC license |
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