Olga Lipovskaya
Olga Gennadyevna Lipovskaya (
feminist. Working in Leningrad during the glasnost period from 1989 to 1991 Lipovskaya edited Women's Reading (Женское чтение, Zhenskoe Chtenie), a samizdat journal of about 30 copies per issue that she produced at home and circulated for other women to reproduce and pass along.[1][2]
Lipovskaya acted as chairperson of the Saint Petersburg Centre for Gender Issues since 1992. She worked as a journalist and interpreter. From 1988 to 1991 she was a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Saint Petersburg branch of the Democratic Union.[2]
On 24 August 2021, the feminist library "FemInfoteka" published news of her death. She was 67.[3]
References
- ^ "Olga Lipovskaya biography".
- ^ a b "n2:0190-8286 - Search Results". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
- ^ "В Петербурге умерла известная феминистка Ольга Липовская" (in Russian). dp.ru. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
Sources
- Buckley, Mary (1997). Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56530-8
- Feminist Review Collective (1991). Feminist Review. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-06538-0
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