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Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War (Ghodsee, 2019)

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Kristen Ghodsee's 2019 Duke monograph arguing socialist 'Second World' women, allied with newly independent states, shaped the UN Decade for Women and were then erased from feminist history. Background on socialist-bloc women's internationalism.

Monografi Duke Kristen Ghodsee 2019 yang berargumen perempuan sosialis 'Dunia Kedua', bersekutu dengan negara merdeka baru, membentuk Dasawarsa Perempuan PBB lalu terhapus dari sejarah feminis. Latar internasionalisme perempuan blok sosialis.

People

Kristen GhodseeElena LagadinovaChibesa Kankasa

Organisations

Committee of the Bulgarian Women's MovementUNIP Women's League

Places

BulgariaZambia

Topics

WIDF and international women's movementUSSR and Eastern Europewomen's rights and emancipationhistoriography

Tags

cold warsolidarityrevisionist reassessment

Details

Date
2019
Creator
Ghodsee
Document type
book (monograph (archival and oral history))
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
USA
Period
1999–present
Access
Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Ghodsee, K. (2019). Second world, second sex: Socialist women's activism and global solidarity during the Cold War. Duke University Press.
File
03 Theory and Transnational Feminisms/Ghodsee (2019) - Second World, Second Sex.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.931) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
03 Theory and Transnational Feminisms
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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