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Mar 2019
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Women Behind the Iron Curtain: Socialism...

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY!

Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Breht once again to discuss her latest book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments For Economic Independence.

Kristen's website is here: https://kristenghodsee.com/

Here is Kristen's latest article about International Women's Day: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/opinion/international-womens-day-socialism.html

Here is Kristen's interview on Season of the Bitch: https://soundcloud.com/seasonofthebitch/episode-57-why-women-have-better-sex-under-socialism-ft-kristen-ghodsee

Here is Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee's podcast "A.K. 47", covering the works Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a Marxist Feminist who had radical ideas about the intersections of socialism and women's emancipation: http://ak47.buzzsprout.com

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