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

Podcast tekijän mukaan Kristen R. Ghodsee

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142 Jaksot

  1. 42 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part I

    Julkaistiin: 25.12.2019
  2. 41 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - A Conversation about Kollontai with Angelina Eimannsberger

    Julkaistiin: 13.12.2019
  3. 40 - A.K. 47 - Soon (In 48 Years Time)

    Julkaistiin: 29.11.2019
  4. 39 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations III

    Julkaistiin: 18.11.2019
  5. 38 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations II

    Julkaistiin: 9.11.2019
  6. 37 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations I

    Julkaistiin: 31.10.2019
  7. 36 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman - Discussion II

    Julkaistiin: 28.10.2019
  8. 35 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman - Discussion I

    Julkaistiin: 20.10.2019
  9. 34 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman VII

    Julkaistiin: 11.10.2019
  10. 33 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman VI

    Julkaistiin: 5.10.2019
  11. 32 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman V

    Julkaistiin: 27.9.2019
  12. 31 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part IV

    Julkaistiin: 20.9.2019
  13. 30 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part III

    Julkaistiin: 14.9.2019
  14. 29 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part II

    Julkaistiin: 7.9.2019
  15. 28 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part I

    Julkaistiin: 2.9.2019
  16. 27 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question Part V

    Julkaistiin: 17.8.2019
  17. 26 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question Part IV

    Julkaistiin: 10.8.2019
  18. 25 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode: The "Adventure" of Motherhood

    Julkaistiin: 30.7.2019
  19. 24 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question: Part III

    Julkaistiin: 8.7.2019
  20. 23 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question: Part II

    Julkaistiin: 28.6.2019

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Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses 47 selections from the works of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a socialist women's activist who had radical ideas about the intersections of socialism and women's emancipation. Born into aristocratic privilege, the Ukrainian-Finnish Kollontai was initially a member of the Mensheviks before she joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks and became an important revolutionary figure during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Kollontai was a socialist theorist of women’s emancipation and a strident proponent of sexual relations freed from all economic considerations. After the October Revolution, Kollontai became the Commissar of Social Welfare and helped to found the Zhenotdel (the women's section of the Party). She oversaw a wide variety of legal reforms and public policies to help liberate working women and to create the basis of a new socialist sexual morality. But Russians were not ready for her vision of emancipation, and she was sent away to Norway to serve as the first Russian female ambassador (and only the third female ambassador in the world).In this podcast, Kristen R. Ghodsee – a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type Books 2018) – selects excerpts from the essays, speeches, and fiction of Alexandra Kollontai and puts them in context. Each episode provides an introduction to the abridged reading with some relevant background on Kollontai and the historical moment in which she was writing. 

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