Dan Healey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Healey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Healey |
| SIGNATURE | HEALEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Circulating Subjects
The author of this compelling book, Philippa Hetherington, died in November 2022, a scholar barely into mid-career but already established as a transformative historian of Russian and Soviet gender, sexuality, and migration. She left the substantially completed manuscript of this book, posthumously edited by colleagues Alessandro Iandolo and Gregory Afinogenov. The product of deep archival research and years of thinking about migration, sex work,…
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Susan Grant, Soviet Nightingales
Journal Article Susan Grant, Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism Get access Susan Grant, Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. Pp. 314. US $24.95, pbk. ISBN 978-1-5017-6259-8 Dan Healey Dan Healey University of Oxford, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkac070, https://doi.org/10.10…
Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–91
How did the Soviet authorities approach the problem of homosexuality after Stalin’s death? In this rich and insightful investigation, Rustam Alexander looks at the ways in which Soviet experts and officials confronted the issue of same-sex relations in a range of social settings. The post-1953 Soviet social landscape was in flux: Stalin’s forced-labour camps (the ‘Gulag’) were being scaled down and reformed, while leaders opened a range of legal,…
Sexology and the national Other in the Soviet Union
Historians have pointed to overseas colonialism and 'race science' as influential in the construction of European sexual science. Soviet sexology arose on a 'semi-periphery' between Europe and colonised societies. The 'Others' against whom Russian sexual ideals were forged would be 'internally colonised' peasants and non-Russian ethnicities of the Soviet Union's internal orient. Pre-Stalinist sexology blended the 'sexual revolution' with European…
La dissidence sexuelle et de genre en URSS et dans l’espace postsoviétique
Ces cinq dernières années, l’histoire des lesbiennes, des gays, des bisexuel·le·s, des transgenres et des queers en Union soviétique et dans l’espace postsoviétique a suscité un intérêt sans précédent. Ce numéro spécial élargit notre compréhension de l’histoire de l’expérience queer à la fin de l’Union soviétique et dans les États issus de son éclatement. Ses huit articles portent aussi bien sur le « centre » russe de l’URSS que sur les républiqu…
Sexual and gender dissent in the USSR and post-Soviet space
The past five years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in the Soviet Union and its successor states. This special issue extends our understanding of the history of queer experience in the late Soviet Union and its successor states. Its eight articles balance attention between the Russian “core” and republics on the “periphery” of the USSR: Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Latv…
Sexual Cultures in Russia
The wholesale rejection of (or call to sublimation of) sexuality is an enduring feature of Russian intellectual life. Russia's hybrid condition, combining European and Asian geography, cultures, and histories, makes it a complex national tradition to study, and sexuality in Russia reflects that complexity. The country's often violent historical experience and its significant divergence from the familiar currents of European religious, cultural, a…
Golfo Alexopoulos. Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag
Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi
" Examining nine "case histories" that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917. The book explores the roots of homophobia in the Gulag, the rise of a visible queer presence in Soviet cities after Stalin, and the political battles since …
Lives in the Balance
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History - Volume 16, Number 3, Summer 2015 (New Series)
Anniversaries
The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War is only the first of a large number of major European historical anniversaries that will occur in the coming four years. Other twentieth-century anniversaries include that of the Russian Revolution and the Easter Uprising; notable corollaries from earlier centuries include the Battle of Bannockburn, the Hanoverian succession, the Battle of Waterloo and, perhaps most significant of a…
Sex and Socialism
Dagmar Herzog's Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History is an astonishingly rich synthesis for a work just short of 225 pages. Its vigorous narrative and energetic arguments never flag, and the wider contours of the continent's twentieth-century history are always in view. This is a book that has the lucidity, and the sophistication, to instruct students and tutors alike
Comrades, Queers, and “Oddballs”
Active, Passive, and Russian
Sexual Cultures in Russia
Russia's hybrid condition, combining European and Asian geography, cultures, and histories, makes it a complex national tradition to study, and sexuality in Russia reflects that complexity. At the same time, the country's often violent historical experience and its significant divergence from the familiar currents of European religious, cultural, and intellectual life have marked Russian approaches to sexuality
(Homo)sex in the City Only? Finding Continuity and Change in the Gay Past
Books reviewed in this article: Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger (eds), Queering the Middle Ages John Howard, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History Stephen O. Murray, Homosexualities
Woman and Violence in Artistic Discourse of the Russian Revolution and Civil War (1917–1922)
This article examines visual and literary representations of violence against women produced during the period. The image of a woman suffering from violence is presented from different points of view in literary art works of the Revolution and Civil War time. It was created and circulated among Red and White camps mainly in accordance with the task of propaganda bodies. Among the object of violence there are allegoric women's figures, symbolising…
What Can We Learn From the History of Homosexuality in Russia
Since the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991, scholars have generated a wave of new studies on the political, social and cultural history of Russia, making enthusiastic use of sources that were once inaccessible. Topics long taboo under the pall of Cold War conservatism (in the West) and authoritarian censorship (in the East) are also increasingly open to researchers too. The history of homosexuality in Russia is one such topic
Moscow
Russian Masculinities in History and Culture
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: B.E.Clements 'What's Love Got to Do With It?': Changing Models of Masculinity in Muscovite and Petrine Russia N.S.Kollmann From Boys to Men: Manhood in the Nicholaevan University R.Friedman Russian Dandyism: Constructing a Man of Fashion O.Vainshtein Masculinity in Late-Imperial Russian Society C.D.Worobec Masculinity in Transition: Peasant Migrants to Late Imperial St…
Homosexual Existence and Existing Socialism
Research Article| June 01 2002 HOMOSEXUAL EXISTENCE AND EXISTING SOCIALISM: New Light on the Repression of Male Homosexuality in Stalin's Russia Dan Healey Dan Healey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (3): 349–378. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-3-349 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon To…
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia
"Masculine Purity and "Gentlemen's Mischief
Sexual exchanges between men in modernizing Russia can be a window on the comparatively unexplored problem of Russian masculinities. Traditional forms of mutual male intimacy occurred within the patriarchal structures of gentry and merchant households, workshops and bathhouses.Arteliof peasant bathhouse attendants engaged in "sodomy" with clients, observing customary work practices (zemliachestvo, krugovaia poruka). By the 1890s an urban sexual m…
Evgeniia/Evgenii
Citing examples of ‘queer’ (gender‐ and sexually‐transgressive) behaviour taken from psychiatric, criminological and forensic literature, the essay explores the formation of Soviet Russian masculinities and femininities during the two decades following 1917. After surveying the legal tradition regarding same‐sex eroticism, it discusses expert views of the ‘mannish lesbian’ and the effeminate male homosexual. Compulsory heterosexuality was a centr…
Homosexual Existence and Existing Socialism
Research Article| June 01 2002 HOMOSEXUAL EXISTENCE AND EXISTING SOCIALISM: New Light on the Repression of Male Homosexuality in Stalin's Russia Dan Healey Dan Healey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (3): 349–378. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-3-349 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon To…
Active, Passive, and Russian
"Masculine Purity and "Gentlemen's Mischief
Sexual exchanges between men in modernizing Russia can be a window on the comparatively unexplored problem of Russian masculinities. Traditional forms of mutual male intimacy occurred within the patriarchal structures of gentry and merchant households, workshops and bathhouses.Arteliof peasant bathhouse attendants engaged in "sodomy" with clients, observing customary work practices (zemliachestvo, krugovaia poruka). By the 1890s an urban sexual m…
Sexual and gender dissent in the USSR and post-Soviet space
The past five years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in the Soviet Union and its successor states. This special issue extends our understanding of the history of queer experience in the late Soviet Union and its successor states. Its eight articles balance attention between the Russian “core” and republics on the “periphery” of the USSR: Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Latv…
Comrades, Queers, and “Oddballs”
(Homo)sex in the City Only? Finding Continuity and Change in the Gay Past
Books reviewed in this article: Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger (eds), Queering the Middle Ages John Howard, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History Stephen O. Murray, Homosexualities
Evgeniia/Evgenii
Citing examples of ‘queer’ (gender‐ and sexually‐transgressive) behaviour taken from psychiatric, criminological and forensic literature, the essay explores the formation of Soviet Russian masculinities and femininities during the two decades following 1917. After surveying the legal tradition regarding same‐sex eroticism, it discusses expert views of the ‘mannish lesbian’ and the effeminate male homosexual. Compulsory heterosexuality was a centr…
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia
"Masculine Purity and "Gentlemen's Mischief
Sexual exchanges between men in modernizing Russia can be a window on the comparatively unexplored problem of Russian masculinities. Traditional forms of mutual male intimacy occurred within the patriarchal structures of gentry and merchant households, workshops and bathhouses.Arteliof peasant bathhouse attendants engaged in "sodomy" with clients, observing customary work practices (zemliachestvo, krugovaia poruka). By the 1890s an urban sexual m…
Moscow
Russian Masculinities in History and Culture
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: B.E.Clements 'What's Love Got to Do With It?': Changing Models of Masculinity in Muscovite and Petrine Russia N.S.Kollmann From Boys to Men: Manhood in the Nicholaevan University R.Friedman Russian Dandyism: Constructing a Man of Fashion O.Vainshtein Masculinity in Late-Imperial Russian Society C.D.Worobec Masculinity in Transition: Peasant Migrants to Late Imperial St…
Homosexual Existence and Existing Socialism
Research Article| June 01 2002 HOMOSEXUAL EXISTENCE AND EXISTING SOCIALISM: New Light on the Repression of Male Homosexuality in Stalin's Russia Dan Healey Dan Healey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (3): 349–378. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-3-349 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon To…
What Can We Learn From the History of Homosexuality in Russia
Since the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991, scholars have generated a wave of new studies on the political, social and cultural history of Russia, making enthusiastic use of sources that were once inaccessible. Topics long taboo under the pall of Cold War conservatism (in the West) and authoritarian censorship (in the East) are also increasingly open to researchers too. The history of homosexuality in Russia is one such topic
(Homo)sex in the City Only? Finding Continuity and Change in the Gay Past
Books reviewed in this article: Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger (eds), Queering the Middle Ages John Howard, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History Stephen O. Murray, Homosexualities
Woman and Violence in Artistic Discourse of the Russian Revolution and Civil War (1917–1922)
This article examines visual and literary representations of violence against women produced during the period. The image of a woman suffering from violence is presented from different points of view in literary art works of the Revolution and Civil War time. It was created and circulated among Red and White camps mainly in accordance with the task of propaganda bodies. Among the object of violence there are allegoric women's figures, symbolising…
Sexual Cultures in Russia
Russia's hybrid condition, combining European and Asian geography, cultures, and histories, makes it a complex national tradition to study, and sexuality in Russia reflects that complexity. At the same time, the country's often violent historical experience and its significant divergence from the familiar currents of European religious, cultural, and intellectual life have marked Russian approaches to sexuality
Active, Passive, and Russian
Comrades, Queers, and “Oddballs”
Sex and Socialism
Dagmar Herzog's Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History is an astonishingly rich synthesis for a work just short of 225 pages. Its vigorous narrative and energetic arguments never flag, and the wider contours of the continent's twentieth-century history are always in view. This is a book that has the lucidity, and the sophistication, to instruct students and tutors alike
Anniversaries
The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War is only the first of a large number of major European historical anniversaries that will occur in the coming four years. Other twentieth-century anniversaries include that of the Russian Revolution and the Easter Uprising; notable corollaries from earlier centuries include the Battle of Bannockburn, the Hanoverian succession, the Battle of Waterloo and, perhaps most significant of a…
Lives in the Balance
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History - Volume 16, Number 3, Summer 2015 (New Series)
Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi
" Examining nine "case histories" that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917. The book explores the roots of homophobia in the Gulag, the rise of a visible queer presence in Soviet cities after Stalin, and the political battles since …
Sexual Cultures in Russia
The wholesale rejection of (or call to sublimation of) sexuality is an enduring feature of Russian intellectual life. Russia's hybrid condition, combining European and Asian geography, cultures, and histories, makes it a complex national tradition to study, and sexuality in Russia reflects that complexity. The country's often violent historical experience and its significant divergence from the familiar currents of European religious, cultural, a…
Golfo Alexopoulos. Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag
Sexology and the national Other in the Soviet Union
Historians have pointed to overseas colonialism and 'race science' as influential in the construction of European sexual science. Soviet sexology arose on a 'semi-periphery' between Europe and colonised societies. The 'Others' against whom Russian sexual ideals were forged would be 'internally colonised' peasants and non-Russian ethnicities of the Soviet Union's internal orient. Pre-Stalinist sexology blended the 'sexual revolution' with European…
La dissidence sexuelle et de genre en URSS et dans l’espace postsoviétique
Ces cinq dernières années, l’histoire des lesbiennes, des gays, des bisexuel·le·s, des transgenres et des queers en Union soviétique et dans l’espace postsoviétique a suscité un intérêt sans précédent. Ce numéro spécial élargit notre compréhension de l’histoire de l’expérience queer à la fin de l’Union soviétique et dans les États issus de son éclatement. Ses huit articles portent aussi bien sur le « centre » russe de l’URSS que sur les républiqu…
Sexual and gender dissent in the USSR and post-Soviet space
The past five years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in the Soviet Union and its successor states. This special issue extends our understanding of the history of queer experience in the late Soviet Union and its successor states. Its eight articles balance attention between the Russian “core” and republics on the “periphery” of the USSR: Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Latv…
Susan Grant, Soviet Nightingales
Journal Article Susan Grant, Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism Get access Susan Grant, Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. Pp. 314. US $24.95, pbk. ISBN 978-1-5017-6259-8 Dan Healey Dan Healey University of Oxford, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkac070, https://doi.org/10.10…
Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–91
How did the Soviet authorities approach the problem of homosexuality after Stalin’s death? In this rich and insightful investigation, Rustam Alexander looks at the ways in which Soviet experts and officials confronted the issue of same-sex relations in a range of social settings. The post-1953 Soviet social landscape was in flux: Stalin’s forced-labour camps (the ‘Gulag’) were being scaled down and reformed, while leaders opened a range of legal,…
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Circulating Subjects
The author of this compelling book, Philippa Hetherington, died in November 2022, a scholar barely into mid-career but already established as a transformative historian of Russian and Soviet gender, sexuality, and migration. She left the substantially completed manuscript of this book, posthumously edited by colleagues Alessandro Iandolo and Gregory Afinogenov. The product of deep archival research and years of thinking about migration, sex work,…
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