Women Behind the Iron Curtain: Socialism, Feminism, & Soviet Power
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.6 | On today's show we have returning guest Kristen R. Godsey from the University of Pennsylvania |
| 0:16.2 | to talk about her brand new book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. |
| 0:20.9 | She's also started a new podcast and she's not on social media so she doesn't get a |
| 0:25.2 | platform to really push out her new podcast but her podcast is called AK47 and it's |
| 0:32.3 | selections from the works of Marxist Feminist Alexandra Colin Ty. |
| 0:36.6 | We did a reading on Colin Ty in our book club a month or two ago but Kristen R. Godsey |
| 0:42.2 | basically reads and discusses 47 different selections from the works of Alexandra Colin |
| 0:46.9 | Ty. |
| 0:47.9 | This pre-eminent Marxist Feminist from the early 1900s and so people should really go |
| 0:52.5 | and support that podcast listen to it. |
| 0:55.3 | It's fascinating. |
| 0:56.3 | It's about an incredibly important figure and Kristen is just a wonderful person and |
| 1:00.8 | orator and fascinating to listen to so I really encourage people to go check out her |
| 1:04.5 | show. |
| 1:05.5 | It'll be linked in the show notes to this episode. |
| 1:07.8 | But with all of that said let's go ahead and get into this wonderful episode with a wonderful |
| 1:11.0 | guest Kristen R. Godsey. |
| 1:23.2 | My name is Kristen Godsey. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm a professor of Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Pennsylvania |
| 1:29.5 | and I'm the author of eight books on gender socialism and post socialism. |
| 1:35.4 | Most recently why women have better sex under socialism and other arguments for economic |
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