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| Author | Serenko D. |
| Title | Devochki i institutsii |
| Description | Daria Serenko’s Girls and Institutions is a book about women’s labour in state cultural institutions and about the language that makes this labour almost invisible. At its centre stands the figure of the “girl”, an employee on whom the institution’s everyday work depends, even as the system treats her as a cheap and replaceable resource. Serenko writes about the office environment and service rules. She also writes about fatigue and small forms of resistance, choosing a form close to poetic prose.
Serenko defines the book’s genre as “magical institutional realism or bureaucratic mystery”. She describes institutions as a closed world with absurd laws of its own, and the “girls” as people who learn to hear one another inside this world. Daria Serenko is a poet, artist, and a political activist. |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publisher | One Book Publishing |
| Pages | 144 |
| Cover | Paperback |
| ISBN | 978-609-8347-05-0 |