Olga Lipovskaya

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Olga Lipovskaya (b. 1954) is a Russian poet 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.

Lipovskaya has acted as chairperson of the St Petersburg Centre for Gender Issues since 1992. She has worked as a journalist and interpreter. From 1988 to 1991 she was a member of the Coordinating Committee of the St Petersburg branch of the Democratic Union.

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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