A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai

20 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Report from the Global Socialist Feminist Conference

June 08, 2019 Kristen R. Ghodsee Season 1 Episode 19
A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai
20 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Report from the Global Socialist Feminist Conference
Show Notes

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee speaks with Julia Mead about reading and discussing Kollontai at the Global Socialist Feminism symposium at the University of Michigan from June 1-3, 2019. Discussed in this episode is Kollontai's 1909 piece, "The Social Basis of the Woman Question," which will be the subject of a future series of episodes.

Mentioned in this podcast are two articles:

Kristen Ghodsee and Julia Mead, Debating Gender in State Socialist Women’s Magazines: The Cases of Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia,” History of Communism in Europe, Vol 8, 2018: 15-34

Kristen Ghodsee and Julia Mead, “What Has Socialism Ever Done for Women?Catalyst, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2018

Also discussed in this episode is the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF)

The intro music is a Russian version of The Internationale

More info about the host can be found at: www.kristenghodsee.com

Also see: AlexandraKollontai.com – A Website for All Things Kollontai 

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