Paulina Bren Books in Order

Paulina Bren examines how television shaped everyday life in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion of 1968. Popular serials, viewers' responses, and party records reveal how Communist authorities used entertainment to normalize political control and how citizens experienced that effort.

New York's Barbizon Hotel offered aspiring actresses, writers, models, and working women a respectable place to live independently. Paulina Bren follows famous and ordinary residents to explore how ambition, social expectations, and opportunities for women changed across the twentieth century.

Paulina Bren traces women's entry into Wall Street from the 1960s through the early twenty-first century. Secretaries, business graduates, analysts, and traders confront exclusion and harassment while seeking financial opportunity and changing institutions built around male power.