The Russian Other in the identity of the EU: representations of the contemporary gender order in the European press Cover Image

Российский Другой в идентичности ЕС: репрезентации современного гендерного порядка в европейской прессе
The Russian Other in the identity of the EU: representations of the contemporary gender order in the European press

Author(s): Dmitrij Olegovich Riabov
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: image of Russia; image of the Other; European identity; «Pussy Riot»; Russian gender order

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of representing Russian Other as a factor of the European identity formation. Analyzing European media coverage on contemporary gender order, the author comes to the conclusion on the ambivalence of the role of Russia in the process of the «Europeanness» formation. On the one hand, the image of the Russian gender order as different from European, backward, aims to strengthen the European identity. On the other, Russia is represented as having alternative ways of solving contemporary gender problems, thus weakening European Union consolidation

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 98-105
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian