Women in Modern Albania: Firsthand Accounts of Culture and Conditions from over 200 Interviews

Illyria
"Post has managed to extract the most intimate stories. Her easy writing style and the information on tradition and history...make it hard to put the book down...mind-boggling and provocative, sad but never despairing"


BESA for Friends of Albania
"a concise, accurate, historical background...should be widely read...interesting and absorbing"


Alexandria Gazette Packet
"Post provides the reader with a informative historic overview of the 20th century in Albania.... Post gives a fair treatment of the women who suffered under the communist regime.... Women in Modern Albania is a book for all women. It touches on the common experience of caring for a home and children, of keeping the family together"


Albanian Life
"a window on Albanian life and a monument to the courage, fortitude and survival power of individuals in harsh and,...unbearable circumstances. ...will be seen to have provided a timely reminder that, through all the vicissitudes of the Albanian state, the Albanian people are fully worthy of the place they claim in Europe. For anyone who wants to understand Albania there can be no doubt that [this book] is the one to read"


About the Author
Susan E. Pritchett Post lived in Albania until February 1997, when military upheaval forced her to evacuate. She now lives in Alexandria, Virginia.


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Uses over 200 interviews with Albanian women of various socio-economic levels, ages, political orientations, geographical locations (within Albania and between village and city), and religious backgrounds to paint a picture of Albanian women's tribulations under the double burdens of patriarchy and the former communist regime. The author's primary purpose is to explore the role of religious faith in the ability of these women to overcome deprivation and repression and live meaningful and fulfilled lives with a characteristic optimism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


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