a reader on Alexandra Kollontai
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lind, Maria > (ed.)
- Creator
- Warsza, Joanna > (ed.)
- Creator
- Masucci, Michele > (ed.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Adamczak, Bini
- Contributor
- Ahmed, Sara
- Contributor
- Andreani, Giulia
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- USSR 9 KOL 2020
- Description
- In this reader, artists and thinkers revisit the legacy of Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) in light of current feminist struggles. Kollontai, who was appointed commissar of social welfare after the October Revolution and later one of the world’s first woman ambassadors, fought for abortion rights, secularized marriage and paid maternity leave. The reader stems from a research project by CuratorLab at Konstfack and Tensta konsthall that accompanied Dora García’s exhibition “Red Love.” It's second title 'Kollontai: a play by Agneta Pleijel' refers to the included first English translation of the 1977 biographical play Kollontai by Swedish writer Agneta Pleijel.