Unequal under socialism

• Verfasst von: Todorova, Miglena S. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Unequal under socialism
• Titelzusatz: race, women, and transnationalism in Bulgaria
• Institutionen: University of Toronto Press [Verlag]
• Verf.angabe: Miglena S. Todorova
• Verlagsort: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• E-Jahr: 2021
• Jahr: [2021]
• Umfang: x, 208 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 187-203
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2841-6
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2840-9
• Schlagwörter: (g)Bulgarien / (s)Frau / (s)Rasse / (s)Soziale Situation / (z)Geschichte 1930-
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Todorova, Miglena S.: Unequal under socialism. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2021. - 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 208 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1765885604

Abstract

"Unequal Under Socialism examines the intersection of local and global racial and gender ideas in Bulgaria from the 1930s to the present. Using a transnational feminist perspective, the manuscript critiques the impact of socialist state policies and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies on Roma, Muslim, and other denigrated categories of women in contrast to those whom the state marked for prosperity and praise. This analysis is significant not just for current initiatives aimed at Roma inclusion, anti-racism and gender equality in the former socialist, now EU member states in the Balkan but also for a broader debate about the relationship between socialism and feminism championed by current scholars like Kristen Ghodsee (Why Women have Better Sex Under Socialism, Second World, Second Sex). While it draws on extensive archival research, the author is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar and her aim is to contribute not just to Balkan studies but to the discussion in feminist theory about the relationship between Marxism and racial and gender equality. The book should be read by scholars studying race and ethnicity, globalization, women’s history, and transnational feminisms, as well as those working on socialism, post-socialism, and history of eastern and south-eastern Europe. It should appeal to many of the readers of UTP’s other titles on social justice, inequality, and critical theory. While it includes some theoretical ideas first developed in her dissertation (which was on Bulgarian immigrants to the US) the content is otherwise entirely new."