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"Women hold up half the sky."
Who is Mao Tse-Tung?
Ghodsee uses this term in reference to the simultaneous roles of homemaker and worker held by Soviet women.
What is a "double burden"?
In the wake of their socialist foil's collapse, Western nations in this decade further pursued the privatization & austerity measures Reagan and Thatcher began the decade before.
What are the 1990s?
After the Berlin Wall fell in this country, "men could once again wield financial power over women" (Ghodsee 2013, XIX) in its Eastern portion.
What is Germany?
"Women's... social life...must be promoted, so that they can outgrow the narrowness of their philistine.. psychology centered on home and family...We cannot exercise the dictatorship of the proletariat without having millions of women on our side."
Who is V.I. Lenin?
A key difference between Ghodsee's conception of state socialism and democratic socialism is:
What is (central control vs. active worker participation; state socialism less open to dissent; democratic socialist countries mix market mechanism with welfare state, state socialism sought to suppress market mechanism completely)
The Soviet Union first sent a woman into space in the 1960s. This decade is when the United States first sent a woman into space:
What are the 1980s?
What is South Korea?
"Women should not be considered a marginal group to be employed periodically only to be denied opportunity to satisfy their needs and aspirations when unemployment rises or a war ends."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Ghodsee references the importance of this concept in understanding the ways "hierarchies of subjugation" create different opportunities for different groups (e.g., in the public sector).
What is intersectionality?
It was not until this decade that Swiss women earned the right to vote.
What are the 1970s?
A 2013 poll of adults in this nation found that 47% of women preferred state socialism to their status quo, despite having been led by a particularly repressive Ceauşescu regime.
What is Romania?