Todorova traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S.
Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state.