Fantastic Gender: Alternative Gender Models in Soviet Science Fiction in the Late 1960s-Early 1980s

Student: Vasileva Olga

Educational Programme: Cultural Studies (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

This paper proposes that the gender models presented in soviet science fiction cinema and literature of the late 1960s – early 1980s provide an interesting and subversive perspective to reception of and resistance to contemporary gender order. Due to this perspective, we can see that these models not only criticize utopian ideological soviet project, but present alternative models of gender expression.

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