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
http://isj.org.uk/lise-vogel-and-the-politics-of-womens-liberation—Oktober 2014, aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning1 Mit der wachsenden Wut über Frauenunterdrückung und angesichts der Aktivitäten gegen diese sind auch viele der Argumente aus den 1970er und 1980er Jahren über die Brauchbarkeit der marxistischen Analyse der Frauenunterdrückung wieder… Continue Reading
Abortion has rarely been out of the headlines in 2016. Women have been leading an unprecedented surge of resistance to attacks on already limited rights to access to abortion. Mass protests at both ends of Europe, on its western shores… Continue Reading
A review of Sharon Smith, Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital (Haymarket, 2015), £11.99 Neoliberal austerity is impacting particularly hard on women. Capitalism relies on women not just directly as workers who generate surplus value but also to provide… Continue Reading
A review of Judith Orr, Marxism and Women’s Liberation (Bookmarks, 2015), £9.99 The gains won by the women’s liberation movement during the 1960s and 1970s, such as the right to divorce and increased reproductive rights, are real material gains. Women… Continue Reading