How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
by Slavenka Drakulic
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Author: Slavenka DrakulicEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-05-12
ISBN: 0060975407
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: Should be required reading for all women's studies classes!
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book while I was living in Prague. Living in Eastern Europe does not automatically ensure an understanding of the people or the culture, and this book was very helpful. The position of women in Eastern Europe (and of course, the world over) is consistently marginalized, so this book is important in that it finally brings the woman's perspective and experience in Eastern Europe out into the open.The other thing that makes this book extremely worthwhile is that it continues to bring home the difference between Eastern Europe and the West. As a woman from the US, it was impossible for me to conceive of and understand these women's experiences, and where those experiences have brought them today. It becomes very easy, in the interests of simplification, to essentialize the experiences of all european women, or all white women. This book shows us that it is not that simple, or easy, or fair, to do so.
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