This article is aimed at transdisciplinary (critical International Relations, visual anthropology, and existential philosophy) analysis of Russian gendered nationalism and masculine ontological insecurities. It explores and re-imagines how visual representations of “Mother Russia” became signifiers of the phallocentric voice of the Russian gendered state. What can return the voice back to the “invisible women”? I claim that the political activism of the singer Madonna in the spheres of resistance to warfare and protection of gender minorities may shed new light on hidden manipulations with masculine anxieties in modern Russia. Besides original empirics, the article proposes theoretical avenues to integrate into gendered nationalism studies research on what I call masculine “politics of loneliness.” I also look at the role such politics plays in constituting Russia's domestic narcissistic master narratives of the collective self and its frontiers with transnational celebrity activism. Based on feminism and narrative IR, this article investigates the “sociological dimension” of Russian loneliness. It examines the alienation of femininity as reflected on Russian street posters photographed during 2021–2023 and represented in the form of five “dialectical collages.”

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麦当娜 vs “俄罗斯母亲？俄罗斯 2021-2023 年政治海报上的孤独和性别民族主义的视觉人类学


本文旨在对俄罗斯性别民族主义和男性本体论不安全感进行跨学科（批判国际关系、视觉人类学和存在主义哲学）分析。它探索并重新想象了“俄罗斯母亲”的视觉表现如何成为俄罗斯性别国家以为中心的声音的象征。什么能让声音回归到“隐形女性”手中？我声称，歌手麦当娜在抵抗战争和保护性别少数群体领域的政治行动主义可能会为现代俄罗斯中男性焦虑的隐藏操纵提供新的视角。除了原创的实证研究外，这篇文章还提出了将性别民族主义研究纳入我所说的男性“孤独政治”研究的理论途径。我还研究了这种政治在构成俄罗斯国内的集体自我及其边界的自恋主叙事与跨国名人行动主义中所扮演的角色。基于女权主义和叙事 IR，本文探讨了俄罗斯孤独感的“社会学维度”。它审视了 2021 年至 2023 年拍摄的俄罗斯街头海报上反映出的女性气质的异化，并以五幅“辩证拼贴画”的形式呈现。