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Archive of Women’s Oppression Today

    Verso Books
    24 August 2020
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    Western Marxist Theory: Verso Student Reading

    From across 50 years of publishing at Verso: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Verso Books
    23 August 2020
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    Feminism and Gender: Verso Student Reading

    All 40% off until the end of September.

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    06 August 2020
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    Revolutionary Feminism

    Feminist reading featuring Nancy Fraser, Nina Lakhani, Andrea Long Chu, Juno Mac and Molly Smith, Leta Hong Fincher, Sophie Lewis and Elizabeth Martínez.

    Verso Books
    27 September 2019
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    LAST CHANCE - FLASH EBOOK GIVEAWAY!

    Last chance to download ALL the free ebooks from our student reading – for this weekend only!

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    14 February 2018
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    Red Day Radical Reading List

    50% off our best feminist reading until Sunday, February 18 at 11:59pm EST. 10% of all sales will be donated to the International Women's Strike fund.

    Sheila Rowbotham
    07 November 2017
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    Women in Russia Before and After the Revolution

    In this long-read, Sheila Rowbotham examines the changing conditions for women before, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as well as the political and social roles played by women during each period.

    Sheila Rowbotham
    07 November 2017
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    Women in Russia Before and After the Revolution (Part II)

    In the second part of this long-read, Sheila Rowbotham examines the changing conditions for women before, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as well as the political and social roles played by women during each period.

    Nora RathzelFrigga HaugKornelia HauserErika Niehoff
    10 June 2017
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    Displacements of the Problem of Women's Sexualization

    At the point at which we wrote these stories, we had not yet turned our attention to the way in which sexuality itself is constructed. Writing and discussing stories of this kind left us with a feeling of helplessness; how were we to identify means of defending ourselves against the forms of oppression they described? No matter how far back they went, these stories always depicted the results of an already existing repression of sexuality. Examining the notion of sexuality more closely, we found it to be represented and lived as oppression at the very moment of its emergence; thus its suppression could not be assumed, as we had hitherto believed, to consist solely in a prohibition of the sexual. But then, what is “the sexual”? In the first instance it seems clear that it is something that happens with our bodies. In an attempt then to discover the origins of our deficiencies and our discontents in the domain of the sexual, we decided at an early point in our research to focus our study on our relationships to our bodies and to their development.

    Daniel Polyak
    29 March 2017
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    Feminism for the 99% and the Compulsion to Repeat: Reflections on Gender, Labor, and Language

    Colin Beckett
    16 March 2017
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    [Video:] Nancy Fraser on the International Women's Strike and "feminism of the 99%"

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