Donald and Lydia join human rights lawyer and fellow Marxist Anne
McShane to discuss her recent PhD thesis on the Zhenotdel, the women’s
department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. They discuss the
origins of the Zhenotdel, how it attempted to solve the shortcomings of
the women’s movement in the second international and its role in women’s
liberation after the October Revolution. The conversation then pivots to
the specific focus of Anne’s thesis: the changing role the Zhenotdel
played in women’s emancipation in the Central Asian Republics. They
discuss how the Zhenotdel related to and incorporated indigenous women
into organizing, the Central Committee’s takeover of Zhenotdel policy
that resulted in the hujum campaign of mass unveiling and the disastrous
reaction that followed, how this campaign can be contextualized within
the rise of Stalinist policies. They end the episode with the final
dissolution of the Zhetnodel in 1930 and the sanitization of Nadezhda
Krupskaya’s figure.
https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/10/04/the-zhenotdel-and-womens-emancipation-in-the-central-asian-republics-with-anne-mcshane/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group.
View/Reply Online (#2233): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2233
Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77316576/21656
-=-=-
POSTING RULES & NOTES
#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.
#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern.
-=-=-
Group Owner: [email protected]
Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy
[[email protected]]
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
