This episode of the LRB podcast is supported by Pace Gallery London.

This summer, Pace Gallery will be staging the first solo exhibition in London of works by the pioneering artist Kiki Koglnick, whose visual language, developed from the 1960s, involved a sardonic feminist critique of the techno-politics of the Cold War.

Opening on Friday the 24th of May, the dance will include paintings,

sculpture, works on paper and ceramics that span three decades of production and reflect Koglnick's

long-standing interest in the utopian possibilities of outer space. Koglnick, who, until recently

has been under-recognised, commented explicitly on the representation of women in modern society,

and her work has an irony and pessimism that diverged ideologically from the canonical pop art as some of her contemporaries.

The exhibition will be free to visit and will run until the 3rd of August, no booking required,

and it will be held at Pace's Hanover Square Gallery in London.

For more information, visit pacegallery.com forward slash exhibitions. You're listening to the London Review of Books podcast. I'm Thomas Jones, and I'm joined today by

Sophie Smith, a historian of political thought who teaches at University College Oxford, and is

finishing a book about women and the history of ideas.

She had a piece recently in the LRB reviewing two books, How to Think Like a Woman,

Four Women Philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind by Regan Penaluna

and the Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, edited by Karen

in Declveson and Lisa Shapiro. So hello, Sophie,

and thank you very much for joining me. Hi, Tom. Thank you for having me. So since reading your

piece, I've been, I had a look at the contents pages of some bestselling popular histories of

philosophy. So Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy published in 1946 has 31 chapters, none of them is devoted to a woman philosopher.

A.C. Grayling's History of Philosophy, published in 2019, has five pages on feminist philosophy,

which could be seen as a slight improvement. But on the other hand, and in your piece,

you mentioned Richard Whatmore's book, What is Intellectual History, published in 2016,

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