Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Articles of theoritical or general character can be found under this heading. Those dealing with movements, specific struggles, national situations, etc., are posted under other headings. To list all of them, use in the group of key-words “Themes” the words “women” and/or “sexuality”.
Almost ten years ago, I asked a senior activist, “what is it like, fighting for women’s rights in Malaysia?” She sighed, “it is a marathon, Ruby. A long marathon and you just have to keep running even when you know not the destination.”
Reading a book such as Women and Gender in Islam by Leila (...)
A feminist perspective on the conflict in Ukraine
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 24 February, it not only broke the post-war taboo of invading a neighbouring sovereign state, but also helped to break other taboos in the West. As the new war in Europe unfolds, large swatches of the population (...)
Well, you can all relax. No consciousness was raised during this shitstorm.
‘Abolish the family’. The argument explodes, fluoresces and evanesces as if it had no history, detached even from the Sophie Lewis book, the publicity for which goaded the Laschian wing of the spear-side into (...)
The revolutionary social justice movement of the 1970s still has answers today
Feminism is often portrayed as a dinosaur rudely dying right in the way of progressive change. Younger people today are much more fluent in their understandings of sex, gender and sexuality. There are more terms (...)
“In order to change the conditions of life we must learn to see them through the eyes of women.”
Leon Trotsky, “Against Bureaucracy, Progressive and Unprogressive” (6 August 1923), in Problems of Everyday Life and Other Writings on Culture and Society, Monad Press, New York, 1973, p. 65. (...)
The Coronavirus crisis and, in particular, the governmental measures responding to it are aggravating pre-existing inequalities and oppression. Exposure to danger and access to support is determined by class, race and gender, as well as one’s position in the global economy. Feminists continue to (...)
MATERIALIST AND MARXIST feminist theory is currently undergoing something of a renaissance. Wide-ranging conceptual and empirical work on social reproduction is a major part of that theoretical innovation. So, too, are the recent international women’s strikes highlighting key issues such as (...)
I love Liza Featherstone’s essay, “Moving Beyond Misogyny” (The New Republic, November 4 2019), an essay that highlights the current popularity of misogyny as liberal feminism’s basic category for analyzing social problems. Hatred of women is offered up as the explanation for everything from (...)
In a comment published in New York Magazine in 2018, Andrew Sullivan warns the LGBT movement against its leftist “excesses,” which run the risk of jeopardizing the achievements of the gay rights movement and of opening the doors to a reactionary right on the rise:
The Trump era is, I fear, not (...)
STEPHANIE COONTZ was off her daily diet of research and writing in late June 2015, while she was vacationing in Hawaii. After a Friday of hiking, body-boarding at the beach and snorkeling out to a rock where turtles gathered, she checked her email. Waiting was a flurry of messages from excited (...)
The characteristics of the current crisis, as well as the practical and theoretical course of recent years, have allowed a fruitful dialogue between two of the central theoretical currents of the last two centuries, feminism and Marxism. With a past history of marriages and divorces it seems (...)
According to some authors, the real experience of motherhood often means having to juggle your personal life, your relationship and work. Having to keep this fact quiet can make women feel like they are failing as mothers.
“97% devoted. 3% self-centred. 0 complaints. 100% mother”. This slogan – (...)
The evidence that men earn more than women is clear – yet the alt-right insists this is a myth. Why has this argument become so pervasive?
‘The gender pay-gap truther”. It is such a distinctive phrase: that neologism of “truther” sitting peculiarly against the throwback of “pay gap”. Something (...)
Considering his work as a whole, Marx had little to say directly about women’s oppression or the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism. And some of what he had to say was, well, misguided. Yet Marxist feminists have drawn on his thought to create a distinctive approach to understanding (...)
In recent years, it has become increasingly uncontroversial in parts of mainstream discourse for women to identify as feminist. In much of popular culture, feminism is no longer depicted as a marginal, radical ideology and has instead become a desirable ethical stance promoted even by the (...)
Hundreds of millions of living Eastern Europeans, including many who abhorred the political reality behind the Iron Curtain, report that their basic standard of living was higher under authoritarian socialism than under contemporary free-market capitalism. Taking a cue from them, Ghodsee’s (...)
Darko Vujica: You often stress that the problem of gender inequality cannot be solved within capitalism. I would like to talk about the relationship between gender and class and production relations in capitalism that reproduce gender inequality. It is obvious that women in capitalism, despite (...)
In the wake of recent incidents of sexual harassment in academia, the claim to feminism of older women academics who have sought to validate predatory advances of male or female professors, with a sex positive feminist stance, stands highly suspect.
When it comes to seeing like a feminist, (...)
Women have fought long and hard to secure access to family planning and abortion, and reduce maternal mortality. A modern timeline of that struggle tells a story full of highs and lows
Women have been joining forces to agitate for their right to a better life for centuries, but some of the (...)
Tithi Bhattacharya offers an introduction to the methods, insights, and strategic implications of Social Reproduction Theory.
Life itself appears only as a means to life.
—Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
A working woman comes home from work after an eight hour day, (...)
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