“All the chaos and upheaval, the illness and death, the exploding unemployment and the imploding economy bring out my fiercest maternal instincts. Letting our children go is hard enough in normal circumstances. Launching them into their futures in the middle of a global pandemic feels impossible.”
Author: Kristen Ghodsee
Kristen Ghodsee is a professor of Russian and East European Studies at Penn and author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type Books, in paperback March 3).
The Most Famous Feminist You’ve Never Heard Of
Although she once crisscrossed the globe advocating for women’s rights, most Americans know nothing of her life or work today. Because she was a socialist, she gets written out of the herstories of global feminism.