87 - A.K. 47 - Working Woman and Mother - Part 1

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

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee reads Part One 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.
Also mentioned in this essay 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, 2021
• Finestres Bookstore in Barcelona, Spain on September 29, 2021
• Gender and Materiality in Central and Eastern Europe in the XX Century in Paris, on October 1, 2021

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