Autor: 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 …

’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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …