Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War

by Kristen R. Ghodsee

Book Overview

Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe--what used to be called the Second World--once dominated women's activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those of Western feminists. In Second World, Second Sex Kristen Ghodsee rescues some of this lost history by tracing the activism of Eastern European and African women during the 1975 United Nations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147800181X
• ISBN13: 9781478001812
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"