Book review: La storia dell’arte dopo l’autocoscienza. A partire dal diario di Carla Lonzi [The History of Art after Consciousness-Raising Starting from Carla Lonzi’s Diary]

Abstract

setting goals, direct contact with colleagues, propensity to negotiate rather than order, and so on. In other words, Gurovska suggests that women in management positions subconsciously approach the companies they run as extended families. Their goals are more about the survival, sustainability and longevity of the company, than gaining fast financial results. Sociology of Women’s Labour is one of the pioneering attempts to contribute to the establishment of a new sociological sub discipline based on Sociology of Work. Unlike authors like Caroline Gatrell, who researches the same topic from a feminist perspective, Gurovska, has an understanding of feminist positions, but is more influenced by the sociology of work in the selection and analysis of topics. Although she is both a sociologist and a feminist, she approaches the topics of women’s labor more as a sociologist than as a feminist. However, this does not mean that Gurovska does not apply a feminist approach, but only that it is applied in parallel with the sociological one. It can be said that the Sociology of Woman’s Labor is an example that points to the compatibility of the sociological and feminist approaches. Hence this book can be seen as a feminist sociology of labor. In that sense, Gurovska’s book is more like the one published by Sarah Damaske, “For the Family? How Class and Gender Shape Women’s Work”. This book is primarily written for a Macedonian readership and for sociology students, but it deserves to be translated into English, so that a wider readership can get acquainted with its results. Translations of books such as Sociology of Woman’s Labour, from smaller cultures, can help to illuminate how global themes are understood, analyzed and interpreted in local cultures and can contribute to bringing local specifics from different environments into the analysis of universal topics such as women’s labor, helping to ‘decolonize’ knowledge.