Review of "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War" by Kristen Ghodsee (Duke University Press)

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Steven Gotzler¹ 

[1] Carnegie Mellon University;

关键词: socialism;    women's activism;    cold war;    feminism;    intersectionality;   

DOI  :  10.25158/L9.1.11

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Kristen Ghodsee’s Second World, Second Sex recovers the historical legacy of women from the Eastern bloc and post-colonial Africa as political activists for women’s rights and diplomats for socialist and non-aligned nations during the UN Decade for Women, 1975-1985. Second World, Second Sex challenges the conventional wisdom of three-wave feminist history by documenting the critical interventions made by women in service of a vision of equality that was always already intersectional, and that refused to separate women’s issues from questions of neo-colonialism, racism, and economic re-distribution. It offers a helpful and instructive reminder of socialist feminism’s rich and global history of organization and action, a history that was created and fought for in large part by alliances of women from non-aligned and socialist countries during the Cold War and whose memory is all too often erased from dominant Western histories of the women’s movement.

【 授权许可】

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