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Title: Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture, and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939 (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies) by Choi Chatterjee ISBN: 0-8229-4178-3 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Celebrating the Truth
Comment: I think anyone who can get past the acknowledgments section of this book is in for a real treat. In that section the author tells her life story: how she was inspired to pursue the intellectual arts after her parents consecrated them as the "highest calling." We are privy to her inspirations: an Indian professor who shared with her the joys of Russian history, colleagues who helped her maintain her sense of humor while she carried her enormous teaching and research workload. We discover that she was stimulated by her students, who she so sincerely thanks for all they have done for her. And, of course, we learn that, because she was a foreign-born graduate student, she was ineligible for two specific grants.

Yes, it was enough for me to shake my head in teary-eyed shame at the way this racist and sexist country continues to make life so miserable and difficult for women and minority students, particularly immigrants. While we roll out the red carpet for rich white boys who thumb their noses at equal opportunity and academic fairness, we continue to discriminate against qualified and capable graduate students such as the author. How she and her immigrant husband ever managed to overcome the rampant discrimination against women, minorities, and immigrants, in order to live a priveleged life in the Los Angeles suburbs is too much for me to consider.

The entire section brought to mind Claudia's words to Pilate during the film "Passion of the Christ:" "If you don't know the truth when you hear it, nobody can tell you what it is."

We live in a vastly different age now, of course, one in which there is no rational basis for morality (particularly in academia). [See Hume for more on this; he wrote about it extensively.] And yet, I am compelled to add that if you don't know baloney when you hear it, you cannot be much helped there either.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Fine Work
Comment: Francisco Balderrama, Carole Srole, Phil Goff, Udo Heyn, Lill Taiz and Lamont Yeakey must be very proud of this inspired little scholar. She has learned well from them all.

Rating: 5
Summary: Wisdom in the Wind
Comment: As a woman, I would feel most grateful and honored if Choi Chatterjee would share more of her wisdom with the faceless and unwashed masses. In particular, I am interested in the history of feminists with six figure husbands, the best kind of feminists money can buy. I became interested in this subject as a student of Carol Srole's, and my interest blossomed as I became more interested in how I could be a feminist, and still get a man to pay most my bills.