I thought Kristen R. Ghodsee’s Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism would be an indulgent 200 page feminist think piece where I could feel good about myself for already thinking the things Ghodsee says. It was better than that. To oversimplify, the book is about the rights women lost when the Eastern Bloc fell. Does that mean 20th century East European state socialism was some feminist human rights utopia? Of course not. I’m happy Ghodsee dropped (most of) the defensiveness early on – she […]