Üritus
Anthropologist Sasha Arkhipova. "Love, Russian Style: Women's Strategies for Finding Men."
What do girls in Stavropol do to make a boy call them? They place a tablet of activated charcoal on his contact picture in their phone — to "activate" him. What do young women in Saratov do to attract a wealthy suitor? They build an "altar" of bread rings (sushki) in the stairwell of the apartment building where millionaire Abramovich lives. What do women in Vologda (and elsewhere) do? They add menstrual blood to a man's beer.
This "love magic" is part of broader female strategies for securing male partners — strategies rooted in serious social realities. If you'd like to understand the specific nature of relationships between women and men in Russia and in the European territories of the former USSR, why women organize "hunts" for men, and how these practices are passed down to daughters through sayings like "Good men must be caught while they're still puppies" — this talk offers a fascinating perspective.
Korraldaja: LuxEureka