New Review of Second World, Second Sex

“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

Review of Second World, Second Sex →

“[W]e ought to acknowledge the contradictions and complexities of the formerly socialist world, rather than shallowly disregarding it as a monolith of un-freedom. Second World, Second Sex challenges the conventional wisdom of three-wave feminist history by documenting the critical interventions made by these [socialist] women in service of a vision of women’s equality that was always already intersectional, and that refused to separate women’s issues from questions of neo-colonialism, racism, and economic re-distribution. Ghodsee’s book 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 Western histories of the women’s movement during the “American century.””
— Steven Gotzler, Lateral 9.1 (2020).

По-добър ли е бил сексът при социализма? →

Дали при социализма жените са имали по-добър секс? Да, убедена е американската етнографка Кристен Годсий. В своята книга, излязла през 2019 в Германия, тя обяснява защо. Годсий задава и други въпроси.

Some nice acknowledgments in Spain and Belgium

Unless you have friends abroad, it is always hard to know exactly how one’s work is being received when it is translated into another language. My German friends and colleagues have kept me apprised of the reception in Germany, but I was really shocked to learn that that one Belgian website (focus.knack.be) chose the Dutch translation as one of their best books of 2019. And in Spain, the national newspaper El Diario chose my book as one of five “cultural milestones” of 2019.

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Sachbuch-Bestenliste für Januar 2020 →

I am very grateful to the 30 jury members of Die Zeit, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk, and others for choosing the German version of my book for their January non-fiction top ten. I am also so thrilled to be be in the company of Naomi Klein as one of the two women authors included on the list.

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Die Jury der Sachbuch-Bestenliste

René Aguigah (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Peter Arens (ZDF), Susanne Billig (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Ralph Bollmann (F.A.S.), Stefan Brauburger (ZDF), Alexander Cammann (DIE ZEIT), Gregor Dotzauer (Der Tagesspiegel), Heike Faller (DIE ZEIT), Daniel Fiedler (ZDF), Jenny Friedrich-Freksa (Kulturaustausch), Manuel J. Hartung (DIE ZEIT), Thorsten Jantschek (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Kim Kindermann (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Inge Kutter (DIE ZEIT), Hannah Lühmann (DIE WELT), Ijoma Mangold (DIE ZEIT), Tania Martini (taz), Susanne Mayer (DIE ZEIT), Christoph Möllers (HU Berlin), Jutta Person (freie Literaturkritikerin), Bettina von Pfeil (ZDF), Jens-Christian Rabe (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Christian Rabhansl (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Anne Reidt (ZDF), Anna Riek (ZDF), Stephan Schlak (Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte), Hilal Sezgin (freie Autorin), Catrin Stövesand (Deutschlandfunk), Elisabeth von Thadden (DIE ZEIT), Julia Voss (Leuphana-Uni Lüneburg).