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Economic Crisis, and the New Enclosure of the Reproductive Commons

Sandra Ezquerra — 2014-05-22T18:55:18Z

In the past few years numerous authors have examined how the current economic crisis in Spain has differential impacts on women and men

- Sexual politics / Spanish state, Women, Economy

Feminist alarm in the Spanish State: the abortion bill must be stopped

Sandra Ezquerra — 2014-01-05T15:21:14Z

On 20 December, the Spanish Popular Party government (right wing) made public the draft of the "Law for the protection of the life of the unborn and the rights of the pregnant woman." As the feminist movement and a broad spectrum of the left has been explaining since then the new law, if approved, would be the most important attack in the field of sexual and reproductive rights in the Spanish state since the Franco dictatorship.

- IV468 - January 2014 / Spanish state, Women

Feminism on the offensive: a pro-life manifesto

Sandra Ezquerra — 2013-10-06T20:36:49Z

The debate in political circles and in the media in recent decades around the question of abortion has been accompanied by a growing monopoly ownership of the defence of the right to life by the Right, in a way that skillfully counter-poses it to the feminist demand of the right to choose.

- IV465 - October 2013 / Women

For an anticapitalist feminism in the here and now

Sandra Ezquerra — 2013-09-02T07:16:30Z

We are publishing here the translation of the preface to the Spanish edition of the book by Cinzia Arruzza Las sin parte : Matrimonios y divorcios entre feminismo y marxismo published in the Critica & Alternativa collection by Izquierda Anticapitalista.

- Sexual politics / Women, Features

Feminist practice in the 15-M movement

Sandra Ezquerra — 2012-07-16T16:38:36Z

As a protest space created by men and women, 15-M has repeated the mistake of its predecessors, fearing that feminism would divide the movement, instead of strengthening it. 15-M has not developed tools for recognising the patriarchal logic to be found at its heart, and transforming them from a feminist perspective. The result has been to render violence invisible and to silence women's voices.

- Feminism / Spanish state, Women, Global Justice

Women's Crises

Sandra Ezquerra — 2011-03-07T21:33:18Z

Over the past three years there have been numerous debates within the Spanish political and social left about the impact of the current economic crisis on working people, and the (in)efficacy of the measures the government adopted to ameliorate them. There has not been much talk, however, about the specific consequences that both the crisis and governmental response have had on women.

- IV434 - March 2011 / Spanish state, Women, Economy