Posts tagged: feminism

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  Video: Angela Davis — Abolition Feminism: Theories and Practices for Our Time

  Angela Davis discusses the development of anti-racist, Marxist feminisms. 

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  Democratizing Care

  Johanna Brenner considers a variety of strategies by which caregiving might be socialized outside the institutions of family and household.

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  Against the criminalisation of street harassment in France

  An open letter by French feminists and researchers into gender violence in opposition to a proposed law to make street harassment an infraction. 

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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.

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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.

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  “Weren’t We Women First Out on the Streets?": The Incomplete History of 1917

  The history of 1917 in Russia requires a full range of voices, and attention to the entire spectrum of human emotions and experiences, within the masses as well as the elites.

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  Women in the New Left

  Reflections by Sheila Benson, Dorothy Wedderburn, and Lynne Segal on the experiences of women within Britain's New Left. 

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  Mourning and Mannahatta

  In the Cut cannily moves its counter across a board whose rules have been laid down by Freudian psychoanalysis, Propp’s analysis of folk tales, and film theory’s obsession with the B-movie and noir.

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  “I Wanted to See for Myself the First Land of Socialism”: Black American Women and the Russian Revolution

  The promse of 1917 allowed African American women to assert themselves as an integral part of a global movement to end racism, sexism, and imperialism.

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  "Explanations" of Male Dominance

  To explain the origins of female subordination we need a theory that accounts for the control of women's work by men.

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  The Effect of the Whip: The Frankfurt School and the Oppression of Women

  Stuart Jeffries on the Frankfurt School's absence of women and the points of contact between the thinkers associated with the Institute für Sozialforschung and theorists of feminism.    

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  Feminism and the Refusal of Work: An Interview with Kathi Weeks

  To confront this changing landscape of work, we need today to draw on Marxist feminist analyses of gendered forms of both waged and unwaged work. The practical implication of this is that, if we want to both understand and resist contemporary forms of exploitation, Marxists can no longer remain ignorant of or separated from feminist theories and practices.