Cold War Book Review

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Drakulic’s own background experiences, provides a solid groundwork for the author’s thesis. However, any amount of research cannot surmount to the experiences Drakulic faced growing up with the lifestyle that comes with communist rule.
If she is discussing the perils of doing laundry or the conversation she had with her censor, Drakulic approaches each aspect of communist control with the same importance. Her stories focus on one topic at a time and colorful descriptions fill the pages. For example, Drakulic describes the influence her new doll had on her childhood ideas of the status of women:
…nobody told us why a doll (a girl, a woman)
had to be pretty. We just knew it had to be
so. We painted their little lips and nails bright
red, and dressed them in tight sexy dresses,
even if we didn’t know what it was all about…
Sometimes I think that at that early age I
learned everything about my sex from these
thin paper dolls—or, ...

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