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Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War
by Kristen Ghodsee
(Duke University Press, £20.99)
IN THIS book Kristen Ghodsee rescues from obscurity an important episode in the history of women’s activism at the United Nations, the contribution of women from the “Second World” of the socialist countries in eastern Europe between 1975 and 1985.
She reminds us of how important communism was to the lives of these women in giving them hope for a better future.
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