{"product_id":"unequal-under-socialism-9781487528416","title":"Unequal under Socialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnequal under Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. Roma women, Muslim women, ethnic Bulgarian women, sex workers, and female factory and office workers were among those marked by socialist authorities for prosperity, accommodation, violent reformation, or erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCovering the period from the 1930s to the present and drawing upon original archival sources as well as a constellation of critical theories, \u003ci\u003eUnequal under Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the lives of different women to articulate deep doubt about the capacity of socialism to sustain societies where all women prosper. Such doubt, the boo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Miglena Todorova's book deserves the attention of both scholars and political activists at a time of extraordinary violence against women's, queer, and racialized bodies in former socialist states and beyond.” -- Raia Apostolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences * \u003cem\u003eAspasia\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgments   Introduction: Epistemology of Doubt   1. Race, Women, and Nation-Building   2. Socialist Racialism: Desired and Undesired Genres of Women and the Paradoxes of Socialism   3. Women’s Work: Gendered and Racialized Socialist State Governmentality    4. Second-Third World Women: Socialist State Feminisms and Internationalisms   5. Challenging the Modern-Postmodern Duality: Race, Socialist Masculinity, and Global American Culture   Conclusion: Postsocialism, Anti-Racism, and Transnational Feminisms    Notes Bibliography Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409160642903,"sku":"9781487528416","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487528416.jpg?v=1730505694","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unequal-under-socialism-9781487528416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}