Kristen R. Ghodsee
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Kristen R. Ghodsee

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Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee is professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. An award-winning author, she has written seven books on gender, communism, and post-communism in Eastern Europe, examining the everyday experiences of upheaval and displacement that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Ghodsee’s 2018 book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, has already had fourteen foreign editions, including five translations into the languages of former state socialist countries in Eastern Europe. Her articles and essays have also been translated into over twenty languages and have appeared in publications such as Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Baffler, The New Republic, Quartz, NBC Think, The Lancet, Project Syndicate, The Washington Post, Le Monde Diplomatique and the New York Times. She is the host of the episodic podcast, A.K. 47, which explores the life and work of the Russian Bolshevik, Alexandra Kollontai.
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