The history of communist feminism. An interview with Kristen Ghodsee

Kristen Ghodsee, an American ethnographer and a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College, discusses women’s movements in Eastern European countries, their common socialist past, and a general history of feminism throughout the world.

What is ‘femonationalism’?

This is the sexualisation of racism: anti-Islam feminists talk about Muslim women’s emancipation, but what does this emancipation look like? They are doing jobs that feminists don’t want to do.