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Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity During the Cold War Hardcover - 2019

by Kristen Ghodsee


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Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe--what used to be called the Second World--once dominated women's activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those of Western feminists. In Second World, Second Sex Kristen Ghodsee rescues some of this lost history by tracing the activism of Eastern European and African women during the 1975 United Nations International Year of Women and the subsequent Decade for Women (1976-1985). Focusing on case studies of state socialist Bulgaria and nonaligned but socialist-leaning Zambia, Ghodsee examines the feminist networks that developed between the Second and Third Worlds and shows how alliances between socialist women challenged American women's leadership of the global women's movement. Drawing on interviews and archival research across three continents, Ghodsee argues that international ideological competition between capitalism and socialism profoundly shaped the world women inhabit today.

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  • Title Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity During the Cold War
  • Author Kristen Ghodsee
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2019-02-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781478001393 / 1478001399
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women and socialism, International Women's Decade, 1976-1985
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018026169
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

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About the author

Kristen Ghodsee is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of eight books, including Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism, also published by Duke University Press, and most recently, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence.
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