Murdo Ritchie reviews the book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and other Arguments for Economic Independence by Dr Kristen R. Ghodsee.
WHY WOMEN HAVE BETTER SEX UNDER SOCIALISM
Inessa Armand
“If women’s liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable without women’s liberation.” Inessa Armand
The collapse of “socialism” in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union may have changed borders but it didn’t make the Earth move –at least for many women. The economic, personal and sexual changes that occurred, changed many women’s lives but not to their benefit according to this new book. The provocative cover title has two parts the first in large type joined by a conjunction to the second in smaller lettering. But the writer makes the case for understanding both in their inter-linked entirety. She is quite clear “unregulated capitalism is bad for women.” (p1) Continue reading “WHY WOMEN HAVE BETTER SEX UNDER SOCIALISM”