Title: A life-changing experience
Review: I was assigned this book in a second-year women's history class when I was an undergraduate...thanks, professor Whitney! Drakulic's attention to the impact of big events on small things, like toilet paper, makeup, and pizza, makes for a startlingly up-close examination of life in post-communist eastern Europe. Ever since that history class, this book has been a touchstone for me. I've passed it along to friends and to both of my parents. It insists that you rethink your ideas about what's "good" and "bad" for feminism, and focuses your attention on the connection between the political, the material, and femininity. Fascinating, wonderfully written, a must-read. I've learned my lesson about lending out my copy...my best friend moved to Texas and took it with her. Of course I must buy another...I just can't be without this book.
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