Unequal under Socialism : Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria / Miglena S. Todorova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todorova, Miglena S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Bulgaria.

Feminism.

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

Minority women.

Minority women--21st century.

Minority women--Social conditions.

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

Women.

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

Women--Social conditions.

Women and socialism--Bulgaria.

Women and socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Epistemology of Doubt

Chapter One: Race, Women, and Nation-Building in the 1930s and 1940s

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

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

Chapter Four: Second and Third World Women: Socialist State Feminisms and Internationalisms

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

Conclusion: Postsocialism, Anti-Racism, and Transnational Feminisms

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

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

ISBN:

1-4875-2843-4

1-4875-2842-6

OCLC:

1251804561