Author: Aleksandra KollontaĭPublisher: Lawrence Hill Books
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Love of Worker Bees
Author: Alexandra KollontaiPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 089733955X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A rare, graphic portrait of Russian life in 1917 immediately after the October Revolution. The heroine struggles with her passion for her husband, and the demands of the new world in which she lives.
Author: Aleksandra Kollontaĭ
Author: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
Author: Alexandra KollontaiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781105836978
Category : Communists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first time that the complete autobiography which Alexandra Kollontai wrote in 1926 has been published. "For it is not her specific feminine virtue that gives her a place of honor in human society, but the worth of the useful mission accomplished by her, the worth of her personality as human being, as citizen, as thinker, as fighter. Subconsciously this motive was the leading force of my whole life and activity. To go my way, to work, to struggle, to create side by side with men, and to strive for the attainment of a universal human goal (for nearly thirty years, indeed, I have belonged to the Communists) but, at the same time, to shape my personal, intimate life as a woman according to my own will and according to the given laws of my nature. It was this that conditioned my line of vision."
Author: Cathy Porter
Author: Aleksandra Kollontaĭ
Author: Aleksandra Kollontaĭ
Author: Aleksandra KollontaĭThe Soviet Woman
Author: Alexandra KollontaiPublisher: Leftword Books
ISBN: 9789380118635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The revolutionary legacy of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) has slipped into relative obscurity. This is somewhat surprising, because she was a voluminous writer - on politics, Marxist theory, country-specific economic studies, and the women's question. She left letters, diaries, memoirs and pamphlets, theoretical tracts, articles, and creative literature. She authored two novels, The Love of Worker Bees and Red Love, which explored issues of love and socialist morality. Kollontai was resolutely opposed to bourgeois feminism, the term used to demarcate a form of feminism that was anti-Marxist and that drove an agenda of free love. She was, however, perhaps the only one amongst a small group of women and men communists in her time who engaged intellectually with issues of sexual morality in the context of women's liberation. She envisioned the many possibilities for women's freedom that lay locked in a socialist future, and set out the mechanisms by which women's subordination - political and economic of course, but equally in terms of ideas and attitudes - could and must be undone under socialism. This volume brings together some of her most important writings on gender, sexuality and women's liberation.
