Review: Kristen Ghodsee: Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity.

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review:

In her text Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War, Kristen Ghodsee sets out to examine two key components of the UN International Decade of Women. The first component is how Bulgarian women’s activists made connections with socialist women in Zambia and exchanged knowledge with them. The second component is how Bulgarian and Zambian women’s activists and Second and Third World activists for women’s rights more broadly, allied with one another in the context of the UN Decade for Women. For Ghodsee, the history of Second World women’s rights activists has largely been lost, and this book works partly as a recovery project.