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Unequal under Socialism examines how and why different groups of women were not considered equal in so-called "good societies" revolving around socialist and communist principles and ideologies.

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“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 * Aspasia *

Table of Contents
List 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

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      Publisher: MY - University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 9/6/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781487528409, 978-1487528409
      ISBN10: 148752840X
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Unequal under Socialism examines how and why different groups of women were not considered equal in so-called "good societies" revolving around socialist and communist principles and ideologies.

      Trade Review
      “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 * Aspasia *

      Table of Contents
      List 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

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