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… Expand
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