Mykola Jabchenko, Ivan Kypibida, Juliya Wus

Krótka historia ukraińskiego feminizmu

What can we say about feminism off the top of our heads? We remember the suffragettes, Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex, we know about the first, second and even third wave of feminism, but the question of what contribution Ukrainians have made to the development of feminism can put anyone against the wall. One may wonder: why do we need such knowledge? In a situation where the idea of gender equality is still a beautiful dream, and the topic of the fight for women’s rights and equal rights is marginalized and reduced to the level of not always funny memes, reading “A Brief History of Ukrainian Feminism” shows how lightly and with distance, but also quite seriously, we can talk about this “ism” that still evokes extreme reactions.