Jodi Dean Liberation School Editor’s note: The following is the second of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at The People’s Forum in July 2020. This second part focuses on Kollontai’s writing on the family and love. Part one covers Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as…
Category: Gender and Equality
Alexandra Kollontai: The Struggle for Proletarian Feminism and for Women in the Party
Jodi Dean Editor’s note: The following is the first of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at the People’s Forum in July 2020. This first part focuses on Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as her struggle to center gender equality within the party’s platform. Part two,…
Uses of Anger: Women Respond to Racism
The writer Audre Lorde ((1934-1992)) who described herself as “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, states: “I am not free as long as there is another woman who is not free, even if her shackles are very different from mine. And I am not free as long as a person of colour remains chained. Racism. A…
Women, Class, and Identity Politics: Reflections on Feminism and Its Future
Martha E. Gimenez It is always necessary to distinguish between the material conditions of production [and, I add, reproduction]…and the ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. —Karl Marx1 I In her rightfully celebrated 1969 article, “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” Margaret Benston articulated several of the…
Introduction to the Archive of Feminist Struggle for Wages
Mariarosa Dalla Costa This text introduces the Archivio di Lotta Femminista per il salario al lavoro domestico, which contains a wealth of material collected from the 1970s to the present, all graciously donated by Mariarosa Dalla Costa after years of work as a militant in the Feminist Movement and as a scholar of the condition…
Every Woman Is a Working Woman
Silvia Federici,Jill Richards Silvia Federici Interviewed by Jill Richards In 1972 feminists from Italy, England, and the United States convened in Padova, Italy, for a two-day conference. Associated with the extra-parliamentary left, anti-colonial struggles, and alternatives to the communist party, these activists composed a declaration for action, the “Statement of the International Feminist Collective.” The…
