Eliot Borenstein is Professor and Chair of Russian & Slavic Studies, Interim Chair of East Asian Studies, Collegiate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Senior Academic Convenor for the Global Network at New York University, USA. Before coming to NYU, Borenstein directed the Fulbright Program for the Russian Federation and taught at the University of Virginia, USA. His first book, Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1919, won the AATSEEL award for best work in literary scholarship in 2000. In 2007, he published Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture, which received the AWSS award for best book in Slavic Gender Studies in 2008.

A 2009 Guggenheim recipient, Borenstein wrote Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism (2019), which received the 2020 AATSEEL Book Prize and the 2020 Wayne S. Vucinic Book Prize. His other books include Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to Power (Bloomsbury, 2020), and Meanwhile, in Russia.: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Fuses together ideas about culture, performance, feminism, and political activism

List of Images
Introduction: Foolish Inconsistency
1. Penis Riot: Pussy Riot's Pre-Feminist Roots
2. Inciting a Pussy Riot
3. When is a Church not a Church?
4. Like a (Punk) Prayer
5. Hurting Believers' Feelings
6. Pussy Riot and Political Speech
7. Performance vs. Archive
8. Feminism and Other Dirty Words
9. Anonymity and Glamour: Does the Camera Love Pussy Riot?
Conclusion