Capitalism Hits Home: Kristen Ghodsee on the Decommodification of Sex - Part 1

[S3 E18] Kristen Ghodsee on the Decommodification of Sex - Part 1 On this week's show, Dr. Fraad and Prof. Forlano talk with author and Professor Kristen Ghodsee about the interdependence of women's sexual relationships, fertility and motherhood to their economic independence. This is part 1 of 2. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad and Prof. Forlano is a ‪@democracyatwrk‬ production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would like to simply donate one time, you can do so by visiting us at democracyatwork.info/donate. Patrons, thank you for supporting Capitalism Hits Home on Patreon. Please know that your support helps us compensate the staff and additional workers it takes to put an episode together. Thank you for being a part of the CHH team!   / capitalismhitshome   ************************************************************************************** About our guest: Kristen Ghodsee is a Professor of Russian and East European Studies and a Member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her articles and essays have been translated into over twenty languages and have appeared in publications such as The New Republic, The Lancet, Ms. Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She is also the author of nine books, most recently: Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War (Duke University Press, 2019) and Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type Books, 2018 and 2020), which has already had thirteen international editions. Her latest book is Taking Stock of the Shock: Social Impacts of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, co-authored with Mitchell A. Orenstein and forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Ghodsee has held visiting fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki in Finland, and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. She was also awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in Anthropology and Cultural Studies. Ghodsee's author website is: www.kristenghodsee.com Ghodsee's books: "Why Women Have Better Sex in Socialism" and "Second World, Second Sex" https://www.dukeupress.edu/second-wor... Washington Post article on Schnabl's book: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outloo... Here is a link to the article about Gay Liberation Behind the Iron Curtain: http://bostonreview.net/gender-sexual... Article about gay rights in Poland: https://www.ironcurtainproject.eu/en/... ************************************************************************************** Follow us ONLINE: Websites: https://www.democracyatwork.info/capi... https://www.harrietfraad.com/ Facebook:   / democracyatwrk   Twitter:   / democracyatwrk   |   / juliannaforlano   Instagram:   / democracyatwrk   Shop our Store: https://www.democracy-at-work-shop.my... Democracy At Work 's latest book by Prof Wolff: "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself" is available now at www.democracyatwork.info/books. "Understanding Marxism" http://bit.ly/2BH0lkL "Understanding Socialism" http://bit.ly/2Y7S17T