How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed Paperback - 2016
by Slavenka Drakulic
Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia. "Drakulic is a journalist and novelist whose voice belongs to the world".--Gloria Steinem.
From the rear cover
This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and feminist) classic, draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocative, often witty, and always intensely personal, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed cracks open a paradoxical world that through its rejection of capitalism and commoditization ends up fetishizing both.
Examining the relationship between material goods and expressions of happiness and individuality in a society where even bananas were an alien luxury, Drakulic homes in on the eradication of female identity, drawing on her own experiences as well as broader cultural observations. Enforced communal housing that allowed for little privacy, the banishment of many time-saving devices, and a focus on manual labor left no room for such bourgeois affectations as cosmetics or clothes, but Drakulic's remarkable exploration of the reality behind the rhetoric reveals that women still went to desperate lengths to feel "feminine."
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed also chronicles the lingering consequences of such regimes. The Berlin Wall may have fallen, but Drakulic's power pieces testify that ideology cannot be dismantled so quickly; a lifetime lived in fear cannot be so easily forgotten.
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- Title How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
- Author Slavenka Drakulic
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2016-06-07
- ISBN 9780060975401 / 0060975407
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.32 x 0.56 in (20.35 x 13.51 x 1.42 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Europe, Eastern - Politics and government -, Communism - Europe, Eastern
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92054849
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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