Just the book I needed
I ordered this gem through interlibrary loan and discovered many fascinating facts about sex and love in the Soviet Union. The author, Vladimir Shlapentokh, was a prominent sociologist before he emigrated to the United States in 1978. This was his first book published in his adopted country in which he argues that the Soviet citizen had become hedonistic in the extreme.
Radio New Zealand Interview
Ugh. Live interviews are hard.
Just arrived!
I’m so looking forward to digging into Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteeth Century when the semester is finally over!
A lovely cover from the East German Das Magazin
I love how gender neutral it is. This is from September 1969 and has a wonderful autumnal feel to it. The viewer is probably meant to assume that the taller one is a man, but there is nothing that obviously makes this so.
Hozier concert in Philly!
This man is soooo good live!
The rewatch I'm looking forward to over the Thanksgiving break
I love this show.
A new review in El Diario (en Español) →
“Este ensayo de Kristen Ghodsee (subtitulado y otros argumentos a favor de la independencia económica) es el relato perfecto para acompañar cualquier tipo de lectura más profunda y cavilosa sobre el feminismo, en su amplio contexto temporal como socio-económico.” Read more.
What the US can learn from women in the Soviet workforce →
My latest column: https://qz.com/1746284/socialist-countries-employ-more-women-in-math-and-science/
This image makes me feel calm
I had a rough night because some jerk rear ended me while I was trying to merge into traffic. I need to find my inner zen like this pooch.
A review in Libros y Literatura (en Español) →
"El socialismo, demuestra Ghodsee, estuvo a la vanguardia en la incorporación de la mujer al mercado laboral y en los beneficios para las familias". Os dejamos la reseña en @librosylit
An interview in Sleek Magazine from Berlin →
Always a pleasure to speak with the journalist, Angela Waters: “Why East Germany was for lovers.”
Interview in Mediapart.fr →
Project Syndicate is the best →
Shout out from Liza Featherstone in Jacobin →
Thanks so much to Liza Featherstone for the shout out in her latest column for Jacobin: When the Ruling Class Feared Communism
A wonderful review in Jetzt, the young reader's edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung →
auf Deutsche: “Haben Frauen im Sozialismus besseren Sex?”
A lovely review from BR24 in Bayern
An unexpectedly kind audio review of the German book.
Penn does autumn
Mums and pumpkins on the Penn Commons.
The Spanish hard copies have arrived...
…after being held up in customs for over 10 days. The cover is both matte and shiny at the same time.
Being Together Precedes Being
A lovely collection of essays and images from a 2016 exhibition called “The Kids Want Communism.” I’ll be speaking at an event in celebration of the book on November 5th together with Joshua Simon, Malcolm Harris, and Marissa Brostoff.
