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Article in The New Republic - How to do internal emigration right! →

November 19, 2024 Kristen Ghodsee

“How to do escapism in the Trump era,” The New Republic, November 19, 2024

In Writing Tags The New Republic, internal emigration, GDR, Paul Betts, East Germany

Summer Reading: Maxim Leo's Red Love

August 26, 2020 Kristen Ghodsee

I started this book over a year ago but then put it down and life happened. I finally managed to finish it and it is a lovely tale of an East German family and the complicated history of the GDR. Wonderfully written and quite poignant.

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In Summer Reading Tags Maxim Leo, GDR, East Germany, Red Love, summer reading

An interview in Sleek Magazine from Berlin →

November 10, 2019 Kristen Ghodsee

Always a pleasure to speak with the journalist, Angela Waters: “Why East Germany was for lovers.”

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In Reviews, Writing Tags DDR, Warum Frauen im Sozialismus besseren Sex haben - Und andere Argumente für ökonomische Unabhängigkeit, Why women have better sex under socialism, East Germany, Sleek Magazine, Angela Waters

The East German Birth Strike

January 15, 2019 Kristen Ghodsee

I found this interesting article about the “womb strike” of the early 1990s in Eastern Germany.

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In Feminism, postsocialism, socialism, sex, women Tags socialism, women, East Germany, GDR