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

English - August 31, 2021 22:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
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In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee reads Part Two of Alexandra Kollontai's 1916 essay, "Working Woman and Mother." This is an excellent essay to examine Kollontai's rhetorical strategies for reaching literate working class women. In this pamphlet, she starts by telling the stories of four pregnant women named Masha, and how their class positions determine society's different levels of concern for the "sacred" state of motherhood.

As mentioned in the last episode, there are three in-person events coming up in Europe (Delta variant willing). Kristen Ghodsee will be speaking at the:

Manifiesta in Oostende, Belgium on September 12, 2021Finestres Bookstore in Barcelona, Spain on September 29, 2021Gender and Materiality in Central and Eastern Europe in the XX Century in Paris, on October 1, 2021

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