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Fellow Kristen Ghodsee's Book <i>The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea</i> Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and on Dialogue TV

Under Communism, Bulgaria developed a robust tourist industry mainly oriented to vacationing families from socialist countries. Women achieved considerable success in that industry in a variety of professions; including the most lucrative administrative positions. With the transition to capitalism, tourism remains a prestigious career and it is still dominated by Bulgarian women. Western feminist experts generally fail to appreciate this record of success and their prescriptions for Bulgarian women are, therefore, often inaccurate. In her book Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea author Kristen Ghodsee explains why.

Tune in to watch an interview with Kristen Ghodsee on Dialogue TV next Wednesday, March 1st at 8 p.m. on MHz Networks. The program will reair on MHz on Saturday, March 4th.

Video of this interview will be available on the Dialogue website the first week of March.

Read more about Red Riviera in this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

About Kristen Ghodsee

Kristen Ghodsee is an assistant professor of gender and women's studies at Bowdoin College and the author of The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea (Duke University Press).

Ghodsee is currently a Wilson Center Fellow and is working on a new project titled: "The Miniskirt or the Veil: Gender, Eastern Aid and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe." Read more about this project.