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Second World, Second Sex

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Second World, Second Sex

By Kristen Ghodsee

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About the book

Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe-what used to be called the Second World-once dominated women's activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those of Western feminists. In Second World, Second Sex Kristen Ghodsee rescues some of this lost history by tracing the activism of Eastern European and African women during the 1975 United Nations International Year of Women and the subsequent Decad...Show more

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9781478001393

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2019

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Second World, Second Sex

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Hardcover

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