{"product_id":"unequal-under-socialism-race-women-and-transnationalism-in-bulgaria-paperback-softback-9781487528416","title":"Unequal Under Socialism; Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487528416","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnequal Under Socialism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMiglena S. Todorova (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487528416\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e218 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.32 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Miglena Todorova's book deserves the attention of both scholars and political activists at a time of extraordinary violence against women's, queer, and racialized bodies in former socialist states and beyond.\" - Raia Apostolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (\u003cem\u003eAspasia\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnequal under Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. Roma women, Muslim women, ethnic Bulgarian women, sex workers, and female factory and office workers were among those marked by socialist authorities for prosperity, accommodation, violent reformation, or erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCovering the period from the 1930s to the present and drawing upon original archival sources as well as a constellation of critical theories, \u003ci\u003eUnequal under Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the lives of different women to articulate deep doubt about the capacity of socialism to sustain societies where all women prosper. Such doubt, the book suggests, is an under-recognized but important force shaping how women in former socialist countries have related to one another and to other women in the global North and South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Epistemology of Doubt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Race, Women, and Nation-Building\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Socialist Racialism: Desired and Undesired Genres of Women and the Paradoxes of Socialism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Women\u0026amp;#x2019;s Work: Gendered and Racialized Socialist State Governmentality \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Second-Third World Women: Socialist State Feminisms and Internationalisms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Challenging the Modern-Postmodern Duality: Race, Socialist Masculinity, and Global American Culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Postsocialism, Anti-Racism, and Transnational Feminisms \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702372004120,"sku":"9781487528416","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unequal-under-socialism-race-women-and-transnationalism-in-bulgaria-paperback-softback-9781487528416","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}