This is research that vigorously and deeply explores why capitalism is bad for women and how, when developed correctly, socialism leads to economic independence, better working conditions, a better work-life balance and , yes, to better sex. In a witty and irreverent opinion piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The response was tremendous: she clearly expressed something that many women had felt for years: the problem is with capitalism, not with us. Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer and professor of Russian and Eastern European Studies, has spent years studying what happened to women in countries that transitioned from state socialism to capitalism, and argues that capitalism disproportionately harms women and thereby we must learn from the past, rejecting the bad and rescuing the good from socialist ideas, and thus improve our liv...read more