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Raping turtles and kidnapping children: Fantasmatic logics of Scandinavia in Russian and German anti-gender discourse

Nordic Journal of Media Studies
Volume 5 (2023): Issue 1 (June 2023)
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|Jun 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/njms-2023-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2003-184X
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Keywords:
anti-gender propaganda,
traditional values,
discursive logics,
Russia,
Germany
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Social sciences,
Communication science,
Mass communication,
Public and political communication,
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