#  Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters 

 



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“Authority, Authenticity, and the Epistemic Legacies of Cold War Area Studies: Some Reflections on Women’s History and State Socialism in Eastern Europe,” with Agnieszka Mrozik, *Aspasia*, 17/2023: 31–52

“A Spectre is Haunting America: Communist Women in the Cold War Imagination *Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire*, 57/2023

"[Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952): Communism as the Only Way Toward Women's Liberation](/file_url/700)," with Natalia Novikova, in F. de Haan (ed.), *The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World*, Palgrave 2023.

“[The Decline and Fall of Plovdiv Typewriters: Memento Corrumpi and the Contemporary Legacies of ‘Robber-Swindler’ Privatization in Bulgaria](/file_url/699),” *Slavic & East European Journal*, 65(3), 2021: 539-564

“[Politicized Representations of Love and Sex: Reading the GDR’s Das Magazin](/file_url/638),” (with Angelina Eimannsberger), *Groniek*, No. 226, 2021: 23-37.

"[Debating Gender in State Socialist Women's Magazines: the Cases of Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia](/file_url/525)," (with Julia Mead) *History of Communism in Europe* 8 (2017) 17-36

"[Bumbling Idiots or Evil Masterminds? Challenging Cold War Stereotypes about Women, Sexuality and State Socialism](/file_url/441)," (with Kateřina Lišková) [*Filozofija i društvo*](http://147.91.230.44/filozofija-i-drustvo-volume-27-broj-3-2016/), Volume 27, Broj 3 (2016): 489-503

"Socialist Wallpaper: The Culture of Everyday Life and the Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement, 1968–1990," (with Miroslava Nikolova) [*Social Politics*](http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/319.abstract), 22(3), 2015: 319-340.

"Untangling the Knot: A Response to Nanette Funk," *European Journal of Women's Studies*, Online first, March 6, 2015 (contribution to the Open Forum). [(pdf)](/file_url/345)

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"Internationalisme socialiste et féminisme d’État pendant la Guerre froide. Les relations entre Bulgarie et Zambie ", *Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire*, 41/2015, "Le 'socialisme réel' à l'épreuve du genre," sous la direction de Sandrine Kott et Françoise Thébaud: 115-137

“A Tale of Two Totalitarianisms: The Crisis of Capitalism and the Historical Memory of Communism,” *History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History*, 4(2), Fall 2014: 115-142

"Pressuring the Politburo: The Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement and State Socialist Feminism," *Slavic Review*, Vol. 73(3), Fall 2014: 538-562.

"[Research Note: The historiographical challenges of exploring Second World-Third World alliances in the international women's movement](http://gsp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/03/1468018114527100%20%20)" *Global Social Policy*, Volume 14(2), 2014: 244-264.

“Rethinking State Socialist Mass Women’s Organizations The Committee of the Bulgarian Women’s Movement and the United Nations Decade for Women, 1975–1985,” *Journal of Women’s History*, (24)4, Winter 2012: 49-73.

“Decentering Agency in Feminist Theory: Social Democracy, Postsocialism, and the Re-engagement of the Social Good” with Amy Borovoy, *Women’s Studies International Forum*, 35 (2012): 153-165. ([pdf](/file_url/108))

“Starting a Family at Your Parent’s House: Multigenerational Households and Below Replacement Fertility in Bulgaria” with Laura Bernardi, *Journal of Comparative Family Studies*. Special Issue 2012, 43(3); 439-459. ([pdf](/file_url/109))

 “The Cold War Politicization of Literacy: UNESCO, Communism, and the World Bank,” with Charles Dorn, *Diplomatic History,* 36(2) 2011: 373-398 - **Winner** **of the 2012 Best Article Prize from the History of Education Society -** ([pdf](/file_url/111))

“When Research becomes Intelligence: Feminist Anthropology, Ethnographic Fieldwork and the Human Terrain System,” *Feminist Formations* (formerly the *National Women’s Studies Association Journal),* 23(2), Summer 2011: 160-185

“Socialist Secularism: Gender, Religion and Modernity in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1946-1989” with Pam Ballinger, *Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History,* Vol. 5: 6-27.

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“Minarets after Marx: Islam, Communist Nostalgia and the Common Good in Post-socialist Bulgaria,” *East European Politics and Societies,* 24(4) 2010: 520-542.

“Revisiting the International Decade for Women: Brief Reflections on Competing Definitions of Feminism and Cold War Politics from the American Perspective,” *Women’s Studies International Forum* 33(1) 2010: 3-12.

"Left Wing, Right Wing, Everything: Xenophobia, Neo-totalitarianism and Populist Politics in Contemporary Bulgaria,” *Problems of Post-Communism,* 55(3) May-June 2008: 26-39.

“Religious Freedoms versus Gender Equality: Faith-Based Organizations, Muslim Minorities and Islamic Headscarves in Modern Bulgaria,” *Social Politics,* 14(4) 2007: 526-561.

“Potions, Lotions and Lipstick: The Gendered Consumption of Cosmetics and Perfumery in Socialist and Postsocialist Urban Bulgaria,” *Women’s Studies International Forum*, 30(1) January 2007: 26-39.

“Feminism-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Cultural Feminism and Women’s Nongovernmental Organizations in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe,” *Signs:* *Journal of Women in Culture and Society,* 29(3) Spring 2004: 727-753.

 “Red Nostalgia? Communism, Women’s Emancipation, and Economic Transformation in Bulgaria,” *L’Homme: Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft* (L’Homme: Journal for Feminist History), Spring 2004 (Vol. 15, No. 1/2004): 23-36.

“And if the Shoe Doesn’t Fit? (Wear it Anyway?): Economic Transformation and Western Paradigms of ‘Women in Development’ in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe,” *Women’s Studies Quarterly,* 31(3&4) Fall &Winter 2003: 19-37.

“State Support in the Market: Women and Tourism Employment in Post-Socialist Bulgaria.” *International Journal of Politics, Cultural and Society*, 16(3) Spring 2003:465-482