Auteur: Kristen Ghodsee

Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic w …

Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors experiences together wi …

‘Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution’ Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rigged against women and what we …

Esta es una investigación que explora enérgica y profundamente por qué el capitalismo es malo para las mujeres y cómo, cuando se desarrolla correctamente, el socialismo conduce a la independencia eco …

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of pop …

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of pop …

Through a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five prominen …

…

Combining first-person narration, philosophical reflections, and advocacy, this volume features conversations with anthropologists and ethnographers Lisa Stevenson, Joo Biehl, and Kristen Ghodsee and …

Anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee looks at pioneering experiments in communal living to present a rousing argument for rethinking what we mean by home. A must-read THOMAS PIKETTY Just wonderful ANGELA S …

Em um artigo irreverente que viralizou na internet, Kristen Ghodsee, aclamada etnógrafa e professora de Estudos Russos e do Leste Europeu, argumentou que as mulheres tinham melhor sexo sob o socialis …

Un deslumbrante viaje a través de 2.000 años de audaces ideas y experimentos utópicos que exploran mejores formas de organizar nuestra vida cotidiana, además de un viaje trotamundos a las comunidades …

In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee’s essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience o …

In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great …

This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe’s transition from social …

Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kris …

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 for …