Sexual freedom and electricity: Notes for some red essays.

Abstract

As in every issue of Políticas de la Memoria, the Program of feminist and sex-gender political memories, "Sexo y Revolución" (CeDInCI) publishes a work related to one of its objectives. In this case, it is about "strengthening the study and debate about the relationship between women's movements, feminisms and sex-gender activisms with the left in all its arc of expression". With this ambitious horizon in view, this essay proposes a key less present in the numerous studies on the reception of the events of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Although its local reading has been widely analyzed, the intention here is to begin to explore some episodes on the relationship of the so-called "sexual question" with the news coming from Russia. These stories fed imaginaries of emancipation and moral anxieties on the left, while they were used as evidence of "degeneration" and immorality from the conservative right.