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Women’s oppression

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

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

Marx rediscovered

Posted on 11th April 2015 by ISJ

A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study (Brill, 2012/Haymarket, 2013), £85.29/£19.99   Heather Brown has written an important study of Marx’s writings on women’s oppression.1 She situates her book in the current… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Karl Marx, Women's oppression

Lise Vogel and the politics of women’s liberation

Posted on 10th October 2014 by ISJ

A review of Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory (Haymarket, 2014), £19.99 Growing anger and activism around the issue of women’s oppression have seen the return of many arguments from the 1970s and 1980s… Continue Reading →

Analysis Women's oppression

Sexuality in pre-class society: A response to Sheila McGregor

Posted on 5th July 2013 by ISJ

I want to respond to a claim Sheila McGregor has made in two recent articles concerning the history of sexuality.1 Since the 19th century Marxists have argued that the development of human society began with a long period of “primitive… Continue Reading →

Analysis Women's oppression

Marxism and women’s oppression today

Posted on 10th April 2013 by ISJ

We live in contradictory times: they reflect how much in society in relation to women has changed, but also how much appears to have stayed the same. Women make up almost half the workforce and just over half of trade… Continue Reading →

Analysis Women's oppression

Marxism and feminism today

Posted on 24th June 2010 by ISJ

According to Sir Stuart Rose, the outgoing executive chairman of Marks and Spencer, women (or “girls” as he puts it) “have never had it so good”: Apart from the fact that you’ve got more equality than you can ever deal… Continue Reading →

Analysis Women's oppression
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