Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by PASHKOFF Susan
The purpose of this piece to highlight the first wave of feminism and to provide some historical context to the creation of International Working Women’s Day in the the period of the first and second decades of the 20th century. While International Women’s Day is still celebrated around the (...)
, by JAYAWARDENA Kumari
For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the (...)
, by DYAKONOVA Daria
‘If women’s liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable without women’s liberation.’ — Inessa Armand [1]
Women in Russian revolution rally for freedom and equal rights
“On July 30, [1920] in the evening, slender columns of women workers wearing red kerchiefs and (...)
, by MARIK Soma
Dear friends, please don’t write / wish me ‘Happy Women’s Day’
I strongly oppose ritualization of this day.
First of all historically speaking this International Proletarian Women’s Day had started its journey in 1910 as result of the socialist women’s struggle in the Second International to (...)
, by RIDDELL John
The following working paper was presented to the Toronto conference of Historical Materialism on May 16, 2010. For Spanish-language translation, see IPS blog de debate . When we celebrate International Women’s Day, we often refer to its origins in U.S. labour struggles early in the last century. (...)
, by BENNOUNE Karima
Remarks at Rhonda’s Life Celebration
I believe that Rhonda Copelon will be remembered as one of the most important feminist international lawyers of our time. For me, as a professor of international law myself, she was a mentor and a role model who wedded theoretical brilliance with real (...)
, by GORMLEY Lisa
Professor Rhonda Copelon, who has died aged 65 of ovarian cancer, was a path-finding human rights lawyer and activist, and one of the world’s foremost legal scholars of the rights of women. Her ideas have entered the mainstream of human rights law and practice, including at Amnesty (...)
, by ORR Judith, ROWBOTHAN Sheila
A new generation is taking up the struggle against women’s oppression. Sheila Rowbotham spoke to Judith Orr about her latest book celebrating women who were fighting for liberation 100 years ago. Judith Orr – Your new book, Dreamers of a New Day, explores the period around the turn of the 20th (...)
, by MOGHADAM Valentine
INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM — AND feminist internationalism — have existed since at least the early 20th century, but forms of women’s organizing and mobilizing have varied over the past 100 years. Since the 1980s, a new transnational feminism — encompassing Third World countries as well as the core (...)
, by KOLLONTYAI Alexandra
This proposal for an International Women’s Day, made at the Second International Women’s Conference at Copenhagen in 1910, appeared in the women’s magazine of the German Social Democratic Party, Die Gleichheit. Authored by Clara Zetkin and others, it emphasized the need for attention to “Socialist (...)
, by GOUGES Olympe de
Marie Gouze (1748–93) was a self–educated butcher’s daughter from the south of France who, under the name Olympe de Gouges, wrote pamphlets and plays on a variety of issues, including slavery, which she attacked as being founded on greed and blind prejudice. In this pamphlet she provides a (...)
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