TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRE-ROE America was a scary world for women. Pregnancy and childbirth were destiny.
The challenges of feminism in Senegal
16 March, by“No cultural revolution, no return to the sources or ethnic, religious or national authenticity, claimed by the groups that demand them, can legitimize the persistence, imbued with idealization, of so-called traditional or ancestral values, which involve serious discrimination and inequality.”
A New Generation of Radicals Is Rediscovering Alexandra Kollontai
8 March, byThe Bolshevik diplomat and Marxist feminist thinker Alexandra Kollontai, whose pioneering writings explored the prospects for women’s emancipation under socialism, was born on 31 March 1872.
A Socialist Woman’s Experience
8 March, byFrom its beginings in the 1800s, modern socialism has embraced equality and liberation for women. The socialist movement has made a major contribution to political, cultural, and intellectual changes challenging women’s second-class status. For many women, joining a socialist movement opened the road to developing their talents, achieving social influence, and contributing to social change.
Solidarity with Chinese Women to Shake up Misogynistic and Authoritarian Xi Jinping Regime
30 October 2022, by“We must stay in solidarity with Chinese women who risk their safety and their lives. Support for a new wave of feminist struggles on the call of the progressive forces in the countries around China is necessary.”
Women in resistance in Iran - a historical view
30 October 2022, by“It is not possible to approach women’s rights by turning a blind eye to socio-economic structures.”
A Tremendous Resistance: Feminists in Russia against the War and Patriarchy
5 May 2022, by“The war highlights the patriarchy we live in from all the sides. ”
Theoretical and practical conclusions of Marxist feminism
8 March 2022, by“In these times of revolts and urgent responses that are insufficient, we have to think about how we organize ourselves, how we again fall in love with the dream that ‘changing the world is possible’.”
The Startupification of Feminism in the Netherlands: Looking for Business Leaders and Event Producers
8 March 2022, by“The history of our movements, be it women’s movements, LGBTIQ movements or other emancipatory movements, are full of examples where professionalization and discourse of efficiency damages the real cause: emancipation and empowerment of the very subjects of the movement.”
Feminism: women fighting for their rights have always met resistance from male power …
28 June 2021, by“We can see that a new wave of feminist struggles of a mass and international nature is sweeping the planet against gender-based and sexual violence and on issues of abortion rights in particular. We can only rejoice. Let us hope that this will make it possible to revitalize all feminist struggles within a unitary framework […].”
