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• History of Women's Movements

  The dawn of our liberation: The early days of the International Communist Women’s Movement and the Comintern’s gender policies

  13 September 2018, 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 (...)

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  March 8: I strongly oppose ritualization of this day – a symbol of struggle

  8 March 2015, 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 (...)

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  The Communist Women’s Movement (1921-26)

  12 June 2011, 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. (...)

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  Remembering Rhonda Copelon

  20 September 2010, 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 (...)

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  Rhonda Copelon obituary

  24 May 2010, 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 (...)

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  Women who dreamed of emancipation

  April 2010, 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 20^th (...)

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  A Century’s Feminist Journey

  1 March 2004, by MOGHADAM Valentine

  INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM — AND feminist internationalism — have existed since at least the early 20^th 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 (...)

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  The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (September 1791)

  1791, 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 (...)