We will have a new episode of Capitalism Hits Home for you on April 7th. Until then, here is a clip in which Professor Ghodsee shares data showing higher sexual satisfaction and preference for marriage in socialist East Germany compared to West Germany.
"In the former Eastern Germany, when people were asked, 'do you want to get married?' 73% of men and 74% of women in the East, socialist part of Germany, said yes, they want to get married. That's 3/4 of the people that you're having relationships with are interested in marriage. Look at the difference between the West Germans where 71% of women want to get married but only 57% of men. And the reason that there's this really interesting discrepancy is, of course, because men in the West are supposed to be providers, and so they're constantly thinking of the economic considerations. Women, also thinking of economic considerations, want a husband who is going to be able to support her. Whereas in the East, partially because of state investments she's not looking for somebody to support her. She's looking for someone to be her partner, to be an equal, to be someone that she wants to spend time with, or share her time with, because she likes him, and not because he pays her rent. I think that's really important to understand."
- Kristen Ghodsee
This is a clip from "Capitalism Hits Home: Kristen Ghodsee on the Decommodification of Sex - Part 1" [S3 E18] in which Dr. Fraad and Prof. Forlano talk with author and Professor Kristen Ghodsee about the interdependence of women's sexual relationships, fertility and motherhood to their economic independence.
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About our guest: Kristen Ghodsee is a Professor of Russian and East European Studies and a Member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of nine books, most recently: Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War (Duke University Press, 2019) and Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type Books, 2018 and 2020), which has already had thirteen international editions.
Professor Ghodsee's website is: [ Ссылка ]
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