Virtual Warfare: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Propaganda in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Journal: East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Year: 2017

This paper explores the intersection of sexual and political discourses as a particular aspect of the body politics that Russia has employed, among other strategies, in its massive propaganda offensive during the hybrid warfare against Ukraine.While recognizing sexuality as one of the mainstream concepts in political analysis, the paper draws on sexually explicit imagery and idiom used in Russian social media, and public discursive space in general, as propaganda techniques, and maps their “gene