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Additional Physical Format: | Ebook version : |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kristen Ghodsee |
ISBN: | 9781847925596 1847925596 184792560X 9781847925602 |
OCLC Number: | 1108060828 |
Description: | 224 pages ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Kristen Ghodsee. |
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Wonderful ... Kristen Ghodsee doesn't wear rose-tinted spectacles ... but she seeks with great brio and nuance to lay out what some socialist states achieved for women ... That Ghodsee also makes this a joyous read is the cherry on the cake -- Suzanne Moore * Observer * Ghodsee's book could not have been published at a better moment ... There are many reasons to revisit socialist policies in a time of widening inequality, but a feminist perspective offers some of the most powerful incentives -- Emily Witt * Guardian * Brilliant ... engaging ... Ghodsee is not naive [and] brings the necessary scepticism to her thesis [which] comes into sharp focus when she looks at what happened after the Wall fell ... [a] valuable record of how things were and how they could be -- Rosie Boycott * Financial Times * Convincing, provocative and useful * Times Higher Education * Capitalism's triumph is a calamity for most women. Kristen Ghodsee's incisive book brilliantly reveals their plight -- Yanis Varoufakis Read more...

