Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria
Miglena S. Todorova, "Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria"
English | ISBN: 148752840X | 2021 | 218 pages | PDF | 13 MB
English | ISBN: 148752840X | 2021 | 218 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. Roma women, Muslim women, ethnic Bulgarian women, sex workers, and female factory and office workers were among those marked by socialist authorities for prosperity, accommodation, violent reformation, or erasure.
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