Editor’s Introduction:

Abstract

This translation project grows organically out of some of the most socially-conscious aspects of contemporary Russian art and performance: specifically, a recent wave of feminist discours in literature and media. This dictionary, A for Art; F for Feminism / I – iskusstvo; F – feminizm (published in 2015 in Russian by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) defines gender terms for the general public accompanying them with images from an art exhibit to which East European and Russian feminist artists contributed.

Keywords

• Aleksandra Kollontai; gender, defining gender, sexism, post-Soviet Studies, feminism, visual art, contemporary Russian art, performance art.