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  1. Back to the Fragments
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Beyond the Fragments began life in 1979, as a pamphlet, and soon became the classic statement of socialist feminism in the form it took in Britain following the political explosion of May 1968. Its three authors — Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright — had spent much of the decade as members of organizations of the “libertarian” left such as the International Socialists, which in 1977 became the Socialist Workers Party. They were also centrally involved in the women’s liberation movement, and grew utterly frustrated by the male-dominated politics of both the Labour Party and Leninist groups.
  2. A Creative Tension: Key Issues of Socialist-Feminism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    Examination of motherhood and feminism, psychoanalysis, the Third World, individual power, and traditional sex roles.
  3. Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    The political and theoretical history of the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
  4. Equivocal Feminists: The Social Democratic Federation and the Woman Question, 1884-1911
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    A look at the relationship between socialism and feminism before the First World War, through a detailed examination of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF).
  5. Feminism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Used to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing more rights and legal protection for women.
  6. Feminism, Marxism: Marriage or Divorce?
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A book review of Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
    By Cinzia Arruzza.
  7. Feminism vs. Marxism: Origins of the Conflict
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    Contrary to an opinion still subscribed to in certain circles, modern feminism did not emerge full-grown from the fertile womb of the New Left, but is in fact an ideological offspring of the utopian egalitarianism of the early nineteenth century.
  8. I Am a Woman and a Human: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In the United States, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a specific set of politics among the left reigns king. Today, you could go into any university, on any number of liberal-to-left blogs or news websites, and the words “identity” and “intersectionality” will jump out you as the hegemonic theory. But, like all theories, this corresponds to the activity of the working class in response to the current composition of capital.
  9. Marx Engels Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Database
  10. Marx and the Family Revisited
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A book review: Marxism and the Oppression of Women Toward a Unitary Theory, by Lise Vogel.
  11. Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    In-depth look at the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
  12. Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    A study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family.
  13. Marx rediscovered
    A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Sheila McGregor states that Heather Brown has written an important study of Marx’s writings on women’s oppression. Brown situates her book in the current economic and political context, noting the role that women play both in the world economy and in recent tumultuous struggles such as the Occupy movement and, not least, in the revolutions in the Middle East beginning in 2011. At the same time, parts of Brown's book are contraditory and frustrating.
  14. Marx the Feminist?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In the face of global economic crisis and the dismantling of social programs under austerity policies, many feminists are re-engaging Marx's critique of capitalism. This return to Marx is necessary if we are effectively to overcome gender oppression, especially since the latest trends in feminism -- or at least those "fit to print" and discussed in the popular press -- place the onus of equal treatment squarely on women's shoulders. Newfound feminists like Sheryl Sandberg advise women to "lean in" and adjust their behaviour to suit the aggressively entrepreneurial norms rewarded in the real world that men lead. As Nancy Fraser aptly puts it, these tendencies within feminism serve as "capitalism’s handmaiden": such identity-centered, cultural critiques have helped obscure capital's dependency on gendered oppressions.
  15. Marxism and women's oppression today
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Times reflect how much in society in relation to women has changed, but also how much appears to have stayed the same.
  16. Marxism and Feminism in the student movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The ideas of Feminism have traditionally found support in universities, and these ideas are currently enjoying a surge in popularity amongst students. At a time when the ideas of Marxism are also finding a growing echo in the student movement, what attitude do Marxists take towards different feminist ideas? How far are these schools of thought compatible? What are the points of contention between them? And what does it mean to call yourself a "Marxist-Feminist"?
  17. Marxism, Feminism, the State
    Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
  18. Marxism, feminism and transgender politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of feminism and transgender politics through a Marxist lens.
  19. Marxism and Women's Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Why are women more often to be found on the sticky floor of low pay than above the glass ceiling where the rich reside? Why is there an assault on the gains of the women's movement? As austerity bites and new debates about oppression rage, Judith Orr steers a path through the history and future of the fight for women's liberation.
  20. Marxism.ca 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
  21. Marxist feminism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as the key to liberating women.
  22. Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women's movement, which was undoubtedly the most important one of its kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the memory hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
  23. Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A look at how "identitiy politics" of the 1980's marginalized materialist feminism.
  24. Montreal: Campus Feminists Fail to Gag Marxists
    For Women's Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The logic of feminism is class collaboration. It also means relying on the bourgeois state to "defend women." The role of the capitalist state is to defend the interests of the capitalists. It has nothing to do with ending the misery of the oppressed.
  25. Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1896
    We must, first of all, learn how we ought to do our work among women.
  26. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
    Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
  27. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
    International Women's Day
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
  28. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
    Workers and Climate Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
    Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
  29. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
    Back to School
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
  30. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  31. Pioneers of Women's Liberation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Hal Draper's book "Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism."
  32. Review: The Politics of Some Bodies - On "Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    At a time when Marxist politics is struggling more than ever against the current, queer Marxist scholarship is enjoying a slight, startling, heartening resurgence. Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody is a major contribution to the trend.
  33. Revolutionary Feminism, Communist Interventions vol. 3
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The third volume of the Communist Interventions reader series, on Revolutionary Feminism. A century of debates between communist, anarchist, and radical feminist militants on women's oppression and capitalism.
  34. Rosa Luxemburg for Our Time
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women's oppression? If so, what is it?
  35. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
  36. Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    Our movement's strategy must grow from an understanding of the dynamics of power, with the realization that those who have power have a vested interest in preserving it and the institutional forms which maintain it. Wresting control of the institutions which now oppress us must be our central effort if women's liberation is to achieve its goals. To reach out to most women we must address their real needs and self-interests.
  37. Socialist Feminism bibliography
    Resource Type: Article
  38. Socialist Feminism in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Brenner analyzes socialism in the 21st century, with a new discourse of gender equality that focuses on transnational feminism, community alliances, the mobilization of members, and overcome the divisions between social classes.
  39. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  40. The Socialist Register 1983
    Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  41. Theories of Patriarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The most persistent and widespread theory around the women’s movement today is that of patriarchy. This is justified by pointing to the existence of women’s oppression in societies other than those of western capitalism.
  42. What is Socialist Feminism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
  43. Woman Under Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1879
    An analysis of how socialism would advance the freedom of women and their position in society. First edition written and published in German in 1879.
  44. Women and Socialism
    Essays on Women's Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    More than forty years after the women's liberation movement of the 1960s, women remain without equal rights. If anything, each decade that has passed without a fighting women's movement has seen a rise in blatant sexism and the further erosion of the gains that were won in the 1960s and 1970s. This fully revised edition examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, focusing on the centrality of race and class. It includes chapters on the legacy of Black feminism and other movements of women of colour and the importance of the concept of intersectionality. In addition, Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital explores the contributions of socialist feminists and Marxist feminists in further developing a Marxist analysis of women's oppression amid the stirrings of a new movement today.
  45. Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1912
    In any society, the degree of female emancipation is the natural measure of the general emancipation.
  46. Women's Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation
    A Marxist Analysis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Society's mores and culture-on questions of marriage, the family, the roles of men, women and children-are not preordained, but must be studied in their man-made historical context. Emancipation means putting an end to the economic system of capitalism. Thus, for Marxists, the liberation of women cannot be separated from the liberation of all the exploited and oppressed.
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