The Importance of the Theoretical Approach of Lise Vogel
Author: Vesna Vuković The academic and political path of Lise Vogel (1938 –), a Marxist feminist, feminist sociologist, art historian and activist, is an exceptional example of the meeting of biography and history. Her scientific research was shaped and guided by political events, and activist experiences crucial for her broad...
Book review: Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti
Author: Marina Vinnik This book explores art and life, work, and art of Sophia Giovannitti, whose website features a list of works is available: https://www.sophiagiovannitti.work/work In the book Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, the author dives deep into what we call love, art, or work in...
Review: Ann Snitow, Visitors. An American Feminist in East Central Europe, 2020. Polish translation in 2022
One of the most interesting books that I have read lately was Ann Snitow’s Visitors. An American Feminist in East Central Europe. Originally published in 2020 in the New Village Press, it appeared in Polish translation (by Agnieszka Grzybek) a few weeks ago. At the beginning of the 1990s,...
Ecology and Womxn Artists in Latin America
In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of women artists in Latin America began to work with questions related to the environment, ecology, and land. Alicia Barney from Colombia, Yeni & Nan from Venezuela, and Regina Vater from Brazil, among others, implemented experimental and critical strategies into their artistic...
Restoration of Capitalism: Repatriarchalization of Society (Book review)
BOOK REVIEW: Lilijana Burcar, Restauracija kapitalizma: repatrijarhalizacija društva, Zagreb: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Centre for Women’s Studies, 2020 Socialist history and legacy have been explored largely from the hegemonic, Western perspective in the globalized (academic) world, and the authors have been forced to ‘catch up’ with...