Untangling the knot: A response to Nanette Funk
@article{Ghodsee2015UntanglingTK, title={Untangling the knot: A response to Nanette Funk}, author={Kristen Ghodsee}, journal={European Journal of Women's Studies}, year={2015}, volume={22}, pages={248 - 252} }
I am delighted that the editors of the Open Forum of the European Journal of Women’s Studies have allowed me the opportunity to respond to Nanette Funk’s provocative and incisive article: ‘A very tangled knot: Official state socialist women’s organizations, women’s agency and feminism in Eastern European state socialism.’ As one of the nine ‘Revisionist Feminist Scholars’ named in Funk’s article, I feel compelled to address the ‘conceptual-philosophical analysis’ presented in the article on its…
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