Miglena S. Todorova, "Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
New Books in Eastern European Studies
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The Violence Against Women in Bulgaria
Under the banner of gender equality women were given more work and the benefits were coming to compensate. But when you look under the surface violence against women what domestic and in the public in the public sphere continued it was rampant. The socialist state never collected that data because if you don't collect data the issue doesn't exist. Every single woman you ask who like me grew up in these kinds of societies will have stories to tell you about the extraordinary domestic violence," she says.
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