Kristen R. Ghodsee

New Review of Second World, Second Sex

February 7, 2020 Kristen Ghodsee

Drawing upon sources amassed on three continents, [Second World, Second Sex] also provides a template for navigating transnational history and studying women in marginalized parts of the world. Interrogating why the activities of women in countries with strong states promoting gender equality should be deemed inauthentic vis-à-vis those in democracies that perpetuate patriarchal norms, alongside rendering the Cold War as a battle between not just capitalism and communism but also competing visions of feminism, Second World, Second Sex is essential reading for anyone in any field interested in women's activism in the twentieth century.

- Christine Varga-Harris in Slavic Review, Winter 2019

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