Keywords: the Defender of the Fatherland Day


The author considers transformation of the meaning and symbolism of the two state Russian holidays celebrated on February 23 and March 8. Besides gender theory, the author draws from the ideas of M. Bakhtin about the feast as an integral part of the culture, P. Bourdieu about symbolic politics and […]

Voronina O. A. “Gender” holidays: the transformation of symbolic ...