Pussy Riot

Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies, Collegiate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Senior Academic Convenor for the Global Network at New York University, USA. His first book, Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1919, won the AATSEEL award for best work in literary scholarship in 2000. In 2007, he published Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture, which received the AWSS award for best book in Slavic Gender Studies in 2008. His latest book, Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism, came out in 2019 and received the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize in 2020. Borenstein was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.

• List of ImagesIntroduction: Foolish Inconsistency1. Penis Riot: Pussy Riot's Pre-Feminist Roots2. Inciting a Pussy Riot3. When is a Church not a Church?4. Like a (Punk) Prayer5. Hurting Believers' Feelings6. Pussy Riot and Political Speech7. Performance vs. Archive8. Feminism and Other Dirty Words9. Anonymity and Glamour: Does the Camera Love Pussy Riot?Conclusion

In just over a hundred sparkling and witty pages, [Borenstein] takes readers inside the remarkable evolution of Pussy Riot... Along the way, Pussy Riot offers crisp insights into Russian feminism, performance art in the media age and the problem of anonymity in a world in thrall to celebrity.