Second World, Second Sex

Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity During the Cold War

Kristen Ghodsee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0139-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Abbreviations and Acronyms viii
Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Erasing the Past 1
Part I. Organizing Women under Socialism and Capitalism
1. State Feminism and the Woman Question 31
2. A Brief History of Women's Activism in Domestic Political Context: Case 1: Bulgaria 53
3. Emancipated Women and Anticommunism in the American Political Imagination 76
4. A Brief History of Women's Activism in Domestic Political Context: Case 2: Zambia 97
5. Sandwiched between Superpowers 121
Part II. The Women's Cold War
6. The Lead-Up to International Women's Year 135
7. Historic Gatherings in Mexico and the German Democratic Republic 146
8. Preparing for the Mid-Decade Conference 160
9. The Third Week in July 174
10. School of Solidarity 186
11. Strategizing for Nairobi 198
12. Showdown in Kenya 207
Conclusion. Phantom Herstories 221
Appendix. A Few Reflections on the Challenges of Socialist Feminist Historiography 244
Notes 249
Selected Bibliography 283
Index 301

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2019
Zusatzinfo	42 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-0139-9 / 1478001399
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0139-3 / 9781478001393
Zustand	Neuware