Olga Gennadyevna Lipovskaya (Russian: Ольга Геннадьевна Липовская; 09.02.1954 – 24.08.2021) was a Russian journalist and 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

  1. ↑ "Olga Lipovskaya biography".
  2. 1 2 "n2:0190-8286 - Search Results". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "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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