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The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World. Ed. by Francisca de Haan. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2023. xxiv, 701 pp. Ill. € 217.99. (E-book: € 160.49.)

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The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World. Ed. by Francisca de Haan. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2023. xxiv, 701 pp. Ill. € 217.99. (E-book: € 160.49.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2024

Yulia Gradskova*
Affiliation:
Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

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References

1 Gradskova, Yulia, The Women's International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War: Defending the Rights of Women of the “Whole World”? (London and New York, 2021)Google Scholar.

2 Haan, Francisca de, “Continuing Cold War Paradigms in Western Historiography of Transnational Women's Organisations: The Case of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF)”, Women's History Review, 19:4 (2010), pp. 547573CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Nicholson, Linda, “Feminism in ‘Waves’: Useful Metaphor or Not?”, New Politics, XII:4 (48) (2010)Google Scholar.

4 See Loomba, Ania, Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India (London and New York, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 For example, the editors of this book explicitly insist on different socialisms and the importance of African socialism for inter-socialist communication. See also Burton, Eric et al., Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War (Oldenburg, 2021)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Gradskova, The Women's International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War.

7 Alonso, Diego Díaz, Pasionaria. La vida inesperada de Dolores Ibárruri (Xixón, 2021)Google Scholar.