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An interesting book review I found on a feminist blog re women in socialist Russia and post-socialist Eastern Europe. The critique of socialism in this piece may be debatable, but in any case I am more interested in the role of women in socialist societies.

July 18th, 2011 · admin · Books (cite: http://www.canonballblog.com/?p=2744)

Emily Channell sifts through some weighty anthropology texts and explains why women in post-socialist Eastern Europe don’t have the ...

Would abolishing capitalism in and of itself be enough to create a just world? What is the role of women in the resistance? These topics have been discussed for a long time but I'm just starting to do research in this area. Feel free to send me articles via PM.

Excerpts from a few essays to get us started:

1. Women Workers Struggle For Their Rights. Alexandra Kollontai 1919

One might think that there could be no clearer or more well-defined notion ...