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Battling “Unhealthy Relations”: Soviet Youth Sexuality as a Political Problem
Author(s) -
LIVSCHIZ ANN
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2008.00343.x
Subject(s) - human sexuality , politics , conservatism , state (computer science) , political science , order (exchange) , gender studies , service (business) , political economy , sociology , law , economy , business , economics , finance , algorithm , computer science
This paper explores the way Soviet party and education officials dealt with female youth sexuality, in an effort to get it under control in order to ensure that Soviet girls grew up to be productive members of Soviet society. Many of the policies enacted by the regime reflected profound social conservatism of the majority of the top political leadership of the country and their great fear of youth, and particularly female, sexuality, as a force that could not be overcome, controlled or fully harnessed for the service of the state.