Unequal under socialism : race, women, and transnationalism in Bulgaria / Miglena S. Todorova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todorova, Miglena S., author.

Contributor:

Commins-Holman Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Bulgaria--Social conditions--20th century.

Women.

Women--Bulgaria--Social conditions--21st century.

Minority women--Bulgaria--Social conditions--20th century.

Minority women.

Minority women--Bulgaria--Social conditions--21st century.

Women and socialism--Bulgaria.

Women and socialism.

Feminism--Bulgaria.

Feminism.

Social conditions.

Bulgaria.

Physical Description:

x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Race, Women, and Nation-Building in the 1930s and 1940s

ch. Two Socialist Racialism: Desired and Undesired Genres of Women, and the Paradoxes of Socialism

ch. Three Women's Work: Gendered and Racialized Socialist State Governmentality

ch. Four Second and Third World Women: Socialist State Feminisms and Internationalisms

ch. Five Challenging the Modern/Postmodern Duality: Race, Socialist Masculinity, and Global American Culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-203) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Commins-Holman Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Todorova, Miglena S. Unequal under socialism.

ISBN:

1487528418

9781487528416

148752840X

9781487528409

OCLC:

1242464893

Publisher Number:

99988509147