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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
علاقمند شدم بیشتر از مجموعه تجربه و هنر زندگی بخونم
از کتاب هایی که باعث بشه سرچ کنم خوشم میاد
کتاب سیاسی نیست و بیشتر فلسفه زندگیه ولی بنظرم میتونه مقدمه خوبی برای سیاسی خوندن باشه :)
از کتاب هایی که باعث بشه سرچ کنم خوشم میاد
کتاب سیاسی نیست و بیشتر فلسفه زندگیه ولی بنظرم میتونه مقدمه خوبی برای سیاسی خوندن باشه :)
I had to read this book for a history course and college, so I wasn't expecting it to resonate with me as much as it did. My parents grew up in Communist Romania and so I've heard stories of how it was for most of my life. Having experiences so close to my own in a book finally made me realize what people mean when they say that they "resonated" with a character or when a book affected them. I was crying off and on through the reading of this book, and have passed it on to my dad to read!
informative
Imagine living in a country where your political system did not consider your needs as a woman and mother important enough to provide for. It's easy enough in the West to bemoan the superficiality of a consumer culture, but how long could you last, Western ladies, in a country that had no consumer culture at all? Imagine a life without cosmetics, any sort of feminine hygiene products, toilet paper, where fruit was available only sporadically if at all, and where recycling was not about ecology but about the complete lack of any goods to replace worn-out items.
This book iis a wonderful description of what it was to live as a woman trying to create a normal life under a totalitarian regime. Encouraged by her feminist friends in the West, Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, Ms. Drakulic describes what it was like for women in the first few years after all of the regimes fell. While pundits described grand political theories about what just happened after the Wall fell and what was continuing to happen, Drakulic was among the first authors writing about how these regimes affected ordinary women.
This book is a quick and wonderful read that shows communism didn't necessarily end when the Wall came down. It will take future generations for all of that communism to leave the mind. I don't think any other writer has helped me see how communism breeds incredibly fascist outlooks in people since making a mistake of saying the wrong thing could be so well...fatal...plus job #1 was to survive iuntil the next day.
This book iis a wonderful description of what it was to live as a woman trying to create a normal life under a totalitarian regime. Encouraged by her feminist friends in the West, Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, Ms. Drakulic describes what it was like for women in the first few years after all of the regimes fell. While pundits described grand political theories about what just happened after the Wall fell and what was continuing to happen, Drakulic was among the first authors writing about how these regimes affected ordinary women.
This book is a quick and wonderful read that shows communism didn't necessarily end when the Wall came down. It will take future generations for all of that communism to leave the mind. I don't think any other writer has helped me see how communism breeds incredibly fascist outlooks in people since making a mistake of saying the wrong thing could be so well...fatal...plus job #1 was to survive iuntil the next day.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
wow, i’d be lying if i said this isn’t among the top 5 best books i’ve ever read. i particularly enjoyed essay 13 onwards, as it became more critical of western leftists and how easy it is to overlook some parts of history just because of how uncomfortable they make us. a must read.
The view it presented of Eastern European women living under communism felt at times monolithic and one dimensional, but overall it was still an interesting and engaging read.
challenging
informative
reflective
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funny
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reflective
sad
medium-paced
I cannot praise this book highly enough! Slavenka Drakulić explores the "relationship between political authority and the trivia of everyday living" from the perspective of women in communist Eastern Europe. She does this beautifully, particularly when she draws on her own experiences of living in Yugoslavia. In Drakulić’s hands, topics such as cramped apartments, beauty products and childhood dolls become utterly absorbing! This is just a spectacularly good book!