MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Revelatory socialist herstory
BERNADETTE HYLAND recommends a book exploring the experience of ‘Second World’ women in the struggle for global equality
Inspiration: Bulgarian war-hero Elena Lagadinova was a leading proponent of women’s rights in the 1970s
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
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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