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women’s liberation

Revisiting social reproduction theory

Posted on 10th January 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon: Work, Power and Political Strategy, Aaron Jaffe (Pluto Press, 2020), £18.99 Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon by Aaron Jaffe is another book in the “Mapping Social Reproduction Theory”… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised LGBT+ liberation, social reproduction, women's liberation

Rose Pastor Stokes and Crystal Eastman: women at the heart of the struggle

Posted on 10th January 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical—The Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), £12 Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life, Amy Aronson (Oxford University Press, 2019), £25.49 Two new biographies unearth… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised First World War, United States, women's liberation

Women’s work in the first civilisations

Posted on 23rd October 2021 by Richard Donnelly

“Be sure to send me the equivalent of my cloth in silver so that I can buy barley.” A woman in Assur to her husband in a distant trading colony, about 1900 BCE. “You are perpetually pressing oil, grinding barley,… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised History, prehistory, women's liberation, Women's oppression

Marx, Engels und ihr Kampf für Frauenbefreiung

Posted on 12th May 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Zuerst auf Englisch erschienen in International Socialism 166—isj.org.uk/jcox-marx-engels-women-lib/. Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels waren große Verfechter der Frauenbefreiung – in Bezug auf die Theorieentwicklung und die Praxis, sowohl öffentlich als auch privat.1 Es wurden… Continue Reading →

Article Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, women's liberation

How Marx and Engels fought for women’s liberation

Posted on 29th March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were champions of women’s liberation, both in theory and in practice, in public and in private.1 Important work has already been published exploring both Marx’s and Engels’s writings about women and the family, and developing… Continue Reading →

Article Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, women's liberation, Women's oppression

Women and the far right

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

The far right is on the rise across the globe and the gains made by women since the 1960s are in their sights. The leader of the world’s most powerful nation is a proud misogynist, boasts about the sexual harassment… Continue Reading →

Article Fascism, the far right, women's liberation

Between “birth strike” and “race treason”: The history of Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code

Posted on 29th October 2018 by Camilla

Paragraph 219a criminalises doctors who wish to provide information about abortion. Its history goes back a long way and points to the scandal that even today there is no right to abortion in Germany.1 The Kristina Hänel “case” has pushed… Continue Reading →

Online only abortion rights, Germany, women's liberation

Social reproduction theory: back to (which) Marx?

Posted on 16th October 2018 by Camilla

In university circles and on the radical left, discussion of oppression has long been dominated by the ideas of privilege theory and intersectionality.1 With the defeat of the workers’ movements from the late 1970s, analysis based on class was buried,… Continue Reading →

Article social reproduction, women's liberation

Ireland’s abortion victory: women’s lives, the liberal agenda and the radical left

Posted on 11th October 2018 by Camilla

Few in Ireland would have imagined, even a couple of years ago, that a vote to liberalise abortion would be so decisively won. The referendum on 25 May that repealed the Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution which made abortion… Continue Reading →

Analysis abortion rights, Ireland, women's liberation

How working class women won the vote

Posted on 16th April 2018 by Camilla

Women won the right to vote by waging a campaign of extraordinary ­ingenuity, determination and militancy. The issue of female suffrage touched every town, city and village, and every family in the years before the First World War. Deeply entrenched… Continue Reading →

Article British working class, suffragettes, women's liberation

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