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  1. Against the Current
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
  2. Alexandra Kollontai and Red Love
    Against The Current vol. 81
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    What is “Red Love”—and more specifically, what is a socialist, or more complexly, a communist theory of love and sexuality?
  3. Am I a bad feminist?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
  4. Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The efforts of women to end the war in Vietnam have been subsumed into a paradigm that suggests that, some time in the late 1960s, women activists left the antiwar struggle for the new feminist cause, leaving behind the movement that had initially ignited their activist energies. This story of ideological abandonment overstates the case. The variety of organizational, theoretical, and personal lessons learned in the antiwar movement profoundly influenced the organized, theoretically nuanced, and personally impassioned movement of, by, and for women, whose diverse constituent groups shared the idea of liberation from male authority.
  5. Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
  6. Bad Attitude/s On Trial
    Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    This work, wrtten by four Canadian feminist university professors, analyzes law and pornography.
  7. Becoming a Revolutionary
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
  8. Beyond the Fragments 
    Feminism and the Making of Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1980
    A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
  9. Black American Feminisms
    Resource Type: Website
    An extensive bibliography of black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines.
  10. Canada's 1960s 
    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A history of social movements of the 1960s, including student and anti-war movements, the rise of women's liberation, labour struggles, and Quebec nationalism.
  11. Canadian Feminism And The Law
    The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund and the Pursuit of Equality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    The author gives a fascinating and informative look at the efforts of the Legal Education and Action Fund, a Feminist-Activist organization for the struggle to effect an egalitarian society through Charter litigation.
  12. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  14. Canadian Women's Directory
    Annuaire des Femmes du Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  15. Capitalism, The Family, and Personal Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  16. Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
  17. A Century's Feminist Journey
    Against The Current vol. 109
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    International feminism -- and feminist internationalism -- have existed since at least the early 20th 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 countries -- has emerged which requires explanation.
  18. Color of Violence
    The INCITE! Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An anthology of critical writings demanding that we address violence against women of color in all its forms, including interpersonal violence, such as sexual and domestic violence, and state violence, such as police brutality, militarism, attacks on immigrants and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, economic neo-colonialism, and violence from the medical industry.
  19. Confronting Pornography
    A Feminist on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  20. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  21. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  22. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
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    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
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    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  25. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  26. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  27. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  28. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  29. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
  30. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  31. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  32. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  33. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  34. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  35. Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
  36. Continuous Excursions
    Politics and Personal Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Colman looks at the idea that 'the personal is political'. He looks at personal life in pre-capitalist societies, the nature of politics and social relations, patriarchy and sexual relations, intimacy and personal life, indviduality and public life.
  37. 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.
  38. Culture of Complaint
    The Fraying of America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
  39. The "Date Rape" Issue: Feminist Hysteria, Anti-Sex Witchhunt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993   Published: 2014
    The anti-sex frenzy springs from the agenda of the religious right. Espousing an ideology supposed to have something to do with women's rights, the feminists might be expected to oppose this witchhunt. Instead, there is a convergence between feminism and religious reaction in support of moralist repression. This is particularly evident in the "date rape" frenzy on the campuses which has recently grabbed headlines across the nation and the world. Egged on by feminist witchhunters, "politically correct" sex on campus serves the war on privacy by whitewashing the intrusion of the campus administration and the cops into students' personal business as "protecting women" and "stopping rape."
  40. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  41. A Different Location in the World: A Reconnaissance of Socialist Feminism in Canada, 1965-1990
    Unpublished paper, 2002
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
  42. Ecofeminism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A social and political movement which points to the existence of considerable common ground between environmentalism and feminism.
  43. The Emperor's New Penis
    The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Right now the gender fundamentalists are doing their best to shut down dialogue. They've damaged books — books that don’t even mention their concern — pressured bookstores, and silenced speakers scheduled at universities. It should come as no surprise that they are using the final tactics of all fundamentalists: bullying, threats, assault. And they've done this with increasing frequency and intensity. How long does it take to see the pattern?
  44. Fear of Falling
    The Inner Life of the Middle Class
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
    Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
  45. The Female Eunuch
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  46. Female Well-Being
    Toward a global theory of social change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  47. 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.
  48. Feminism and Sadomasochism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1981
    Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
  49. A Feminism for the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich charged the feminist movement with advancing only "educated, middle-class women." Her critique is more pertinent than ever.
  50. Feminism in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An attempt to lay down theoretical and methodological principles of feminist scholarship.
  51. Feminism in Canada
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Last year, on International Women’s Day in Toronto, several hundred people — many veteran feminist activists — packed an auditorium in the city’s Ryerson University for the launch of Judy Rebick’s oral history of the women’s movement in Canada, Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution. The fact that the book had just been reviewed in the conservative Globe and Mail, Canada’s most influential newspaper, also widened the audience.
  52. Feminism in the Radical and Early Socialist Movement
    Chapter 8 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1975
    There existed a strong minority tradition in radicalism which questioned the whole social and sexual position of women.
  53. 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.
  54. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    This book reconstructs the little-known history of those political struggles women launched in Asia and the Middle East from the late 19th century onwards. The author challenges the view that feminism is a foreign ideology currently being imposed on Third World countries. She also brings back into the mainstream of history those women who played a part in the national liberation and revolutionary movements of their countries.
  55. Feminism, Politcal Economy, and the State
    Resource Type: Book
  56. Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    A discussion of feminist theory, particularly the usefulness of postmodernism as a theoretical concept. From the book "Feminist Contentions. A Philosophical Exchange."
  57. Feminism, The Global Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 139
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Coming to feminist consciousness in the early 1980s, I belong to a generation of U.S. feminists caught between the second and third “waves” of the movement. The activist energy of second-wave feminism was inspiring indeed. It challenged the ideological presuppositions of heteronormative patriarchy, established some legal protection against discrimination in the workplace and educational institutions, and enabled a significant percentage of women to enter the ranks of the professional-managerial class.
  58. 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.
  59. Feminism's Global Contradictions
    Against The Current vol. 148
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    It is clear that the most significant factor now shaping women’s lives and status worldwide is globalization. What isn’t clear, however, is whether globalization is affecting women positively or negatively.
  60. Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview
    Against The Current vol. 163
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
  61. Feminist Issues In Prostitution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
  62. Feminist Majority Foundation
    Resource Type: Website
    News, resources, articles, and links of interest to women on a wide range of topics. Access to archives and searchable databases of documents.
  63. Feminist Organizing for Change
    The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  64. A Feminist Reader for Today
    Against The Current vol. 109
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Each time I teach History of Feminist Thought at my university, in order to highlight the limitations of a gender-only feminism and to exemplify the strengths of socialist feminism, I show my students "Salt of the Earth" (1954), a deeply moving and inspiring film based on a successful "predominantly Mexican-American" miners' strike in which the miners' picketing was blocked by the Taft-Hartley injunction.
  65. Feminist Resource Materials
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A constantly updated bibliography of materials related to women's issues in Canada.
  66. Feminist.COM
    Resource Type: Website
    News, resources, links to activist pages dealing with women's rights and equality. Articles, speeches, documents. Classified ads.
  67. Feminists Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Website
    A group of feminist academics and campaigners who fight censorship from a feminist perspective. They believe:
    1) Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress dissent from those who would challenge oppression by society and the state, and particularly victimizes minorities.
    2) Censorship is used by those in power as a way to avoid dealing with serious, intractable problems in society that require real, imaginative action, and are not solved by banning words and images.
    3) Women must have recourse to free expression in order to explore the truth of our own experience and sexuality that has been forcibly hidden from us for millennia, and the state must no longer be permitted to interfere with this discourse.
    4) Censorship can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech.
    5) Censorship gives unacceptable powers to the police to invade our privacy and harass individuals who they find threatening although they pose no threat to others.
  68. The First Stone: Homosexuality and the United Church
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A dramatic account of the tumultuous decade-long struggle in the United Church of Canada to balance faith, sexuality and human rights. Drawing on the church's history, and more than one hundred personal encounters across the country, the book reveals an enormous range of passionate opinion, from fundamentalist to progressive. It documents not only deep tensions that threatened to dis-unite the United Church, but also its remarkable resilience as an enduring network of faith communities.
  69. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  70. Friedan, Betty
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
  71. Gaza's women of steel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.
  72. Globalization and Feminism
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In the concluding chapter of this innovative and insightful anthology, Torry Dickinson and Robert Schaeffer argue that “A key development for both theory and politics has been that the intersection of different global hierarchies has led to the rise of global, intersecting social movements. Many of the movements that have emerged are feminist-inspired and women-centered because women have been targeted by male-dominated institutions as new sources of accumulation, profit, and greed.”
  73. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
  74. Healing the Wounds
    The Promise of Ecofeminism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    An anthology of writings on ecofeminism.
  75. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
  76. How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    As a feminist, I've always assumed that by fighting to emancipate women I was building a better world – more egalitarian, just and free. But lately I've begun to worry that ideals pioneered by feminists are serving quite different ends. I worry, specifically, that our critique of sexism is now supplying the justification for new forms of inequality and exploitation.
  77. How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It is amidst this wider rape culture, and the ways feminists are fighting back, that SlutWalk not only emerged, but exploded as a global grassroots movement. What is significant about SlutWalk is not the premise; after all, women have been protesting against sexual violence for decades. What is striking about SlutWalk was its ability, despite its feminist roots, to capture the mainstream media's attention.
  78. 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.
  79. If this is feminism...
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Part of the problem with the response to Tuvel's article is that some seem to feel that they are the only ones who have the legitimate right to talk about certain topics. At best, this is identity politics run amok; at worst it is a turf war.
  80. Imagine Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
  81. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  82. Is Feminist Ethics Possible?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  83. Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Feminist Fightback has for many years described itself as seeking to practice an 'intersectional' form of feminism, whereby we argue that the struggle for gender liberation must take account of, and join with, struggles against all other forms of oppression and exploitation around the axis of class, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism etc. We began to use 'intersectional' in place of 'socialist feminist' in about 2007-8 because we felt that the latter term implied an interest in gender and class but did not give due emphasis to race. We continued to be inspired by a variety of Marxist and class-struggle anarchist currents, and we did not feel these to be in contradiction to a commitment to intersectionality.
  84. The Kurdish struggle - An interview with Dilar Dirik
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Dilar Dirik interviewed by George Souvlis.
  85. Learning to struggle: my story between workerism and feminism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    An account of an Italian Marxist feminist's experiences and development in the autonomist and feminist movements in Italy in the 1970s.
  86. Machismo and Its Discontents
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
  87. 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.
  88. 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.
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. Marxism, feminism and transgender politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of feminism and transgender politics through a Marxist lens.
  92. Marxist feminism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as the key to liberating women.
  93. 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.
  94. Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    With Me Too’s focus where it is, on man’s injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over time erased our cultures, communities and is set to destroy all life on the planet.
  95. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
  96. 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.
  97. The Morning After
    Sex, Fear, and Feminism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 1994
    When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and women experience sex.
  98. Movement for Christian Feminism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    This pamphlet outlines the goals of the Christian Feminist Movement which is engaged in an ecumenical project designed to enable women concerned about sexism in the Churches to discover their role in strengthening the life of the church.
  99. Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-Examines Abortion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    McDonnell describes the often conflicting needs and emotions experienced prior to and after abortion.
  100. Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    An explanation of the foundation of recent post-modern theory which also criticises the misogynist and patriarchal work of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
  101. On Being a Jewish Feminist
    A Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    This collection explores the myths and images of women that delimit women's growth within Judaism.
  102. On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The authors tell the story of the Midsummer's day 1908 'Votes for women' Suffragist rally and the March 1971 Women's Liberation Movement Demonstration in Hyde ParK, London.
  103. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
    Working class organizing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
  104. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  105. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  106. Our Generation
    Volume 17 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
  107. Our Generation
    Volume 19 Number 1
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
  108. Our Generation
    Volume 19 number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  109. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  110. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  111. Our Generation
    Volume 23 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  112. Our Generation
    Volume 24 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  113. A Parable of Women's Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Meredith Tax.
  114. A People's History of the United States 
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
  115. Piecing It Together
    Feminism and Non-Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  116. 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."
  117. Pioneers of Women's Liberation
    Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Hal Draper (1914-1990) was both a master polemicist and an erudite scholar of Marxism and of socialist history, often combining these talents in withering critiques of alternative analyses. These qualities are fully manifested in Women and Class: Towards a Socialist Feminism, now released by the Center for Socialist History, a collection of essays some of which were written in connection with his multivolume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution.
  118. The Politics Of Abortion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  119. Pornography in a Free Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    An examination of public policy debates about pornography in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
  120. Pornography and the Sex Censors
    A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
  121. Post-war Left Feminism - review
    Against The Current vol. 163
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture' by Kathlene McDonald.
  122. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
  123. The Professor of Parody
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    It is difficult to come to grips with Judith Butler’s ideas because it is difficult to figure out what they are.
  124. Queer Progress
    From Homophobia to Homonationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
  125. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2008
  126. The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program, and Organizational Structure
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    The complete guide to Radical Women, an activist, multiracial, queer and straight socialist feminist organization.
  127. Reading Red Women Writers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Coiner makes a cogent case for class studies, decrying the way in which discussions of "race, class and gender" usually only actually deal with race and gender.
  128. Rebels, Reds, Radicals 
    Rethinking Canada's Left History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
  129. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  130. Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
  131. Resources for Feminist Research (RFR)
    Documentation Sur La Recherche Feministe (DRF) - Periodical profile published 1983
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  132. 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.
  133. 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.
  134. The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation:
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Dixon uses a Marxist analysis to try to explain the decline of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's.
  135. Rise of the naked female warriors
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
  136. Rise Up Feminist Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    A digital archive of feminist activism in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s.
  137. Second-wave Feminism (USA)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted throughout the late 1970s.
  138. Sex, Scandals and Power
    #MeToo Mania and the Democrats' "Resistance"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A wide range of behavior -- including flirtation and innuendo, a vulgar text or a crude joke, not to mention unpleasant sex -- is being lumped together with real crimes of coercion and assault. Those called out for sexual impropriety, no matter how trivial, how unproven or how long ago, run the media gantlet, are declared guilty and their careers ruined.
  139. She's Beautiful When She's Angry
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2014
    She's Beautiful When She's Angry resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement in the United States from 1966 to 1971. She's Beautiful When She's Angry takes us from the founding of NOW, when ladies wore hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women's liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of WITCH (Women's International Conspiracy from Hell!)
  140. Side By Side
    Resource Type: Book
    This is the story of Helen Joseph, one of the most famous South African women to campaign against apartheid. One of the accused in the infamous Treason Trial of the 1950s, and the first person to be placed under house arrest, she continues despite bannings, jail, and police harassment to campaign tirelessly for freedom and justice for all people in South Africa. A deeply moving account of her 30 years' involvement in the struggle of the South African people.
  141. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
  142. Sisterhood, Interrupted
    From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
  143. Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn't Asking You to Think About
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Solidarity doesn’t exist, like a material object, the way tables and chairs do. Solidarity is the confidence we can sometimes have that others, sharing with us a common enemy and a core of overlapping aspirations, will have our back when we find ourselves under attack, or when we need their support to win a crucial struggle. We don't stumble upon solidarity when poring over statistics; we won't find it by comparing our pay stubs with that of the worker down the street. We forge it in common struggle
  144. Socialism and the New Life
    The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  145. Socialist Feminism bibliography
    Resource Type: Article
  146. Socialist Feminism: The First Decade, 1966-76
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    The forging of the Freedom Socialist Party, which was the first Marxist feminist party in the United States.
  147. The Socialist Feminist Project
    A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politcs
    Resource Type: Book
    Socialist feminist theorizing is flourishing today. This collection is intended to shows its strengths and resources and convey a sense of it as an ongoing project.
  148. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  149. The Socialist Register 1980
    Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  150. The Socialist Register 1983
    Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  151. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  152. The Socialist Register 1989
    Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  153. The Socialist Register 1990
    Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
  154. Socialist Register 1993
    Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1993
  155. Socialist Register 2013
    Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2013
    This, the 49th volume of the Socialist Register examines the choices faced by the left today, the models of strategy available to it, and the innovations that are being made by groups as they organize in diverse settings.
  156. Steady Hands for Freedom
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Book Review of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC" by Faith S. Holsaert, et. al
  157. Still ain't satisfied
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  158. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
  159. Surviving the Blues
    Growing up in Thatchers Decade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  160. Ten Thousand Roses
    The Making of a Feminist Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  161. 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.
  162. There Is a War on Ordinary People, and Feminists Are Needed at the Front
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The problem with media-run "conversations" on gender is not merely the almost total absence of male participants, but the suppression of class. The bourgeois media club relegates and distracts from the fact that a full-blooded class war is under way.
  163. They Are Burning Effigies They Are Burning Effigies Why, Why, Why, Effigies?
    Resource Type: Article
    Morton argues that the Women's Movement has attempted to organize women around their perceived weaknesses. Instead, she argues for an autonomous Women's Movement predicated on the inherent strength of women and on solidarity with other groups engaged in struggle.
  164. Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism and Non-volence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  165. Through the Glass Clearly
    Canadian Women's Education, Work, and Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  166. Tide Turning in Latin America?
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
  167. Title IX Witchhunts, Anti-Sex Frenzy and Bourgeois Feminism
    Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - A Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Is the specter of sex haunting the campus? Under the pretense of targeting sexual harassment and assault, university administrations have been whipping up a climate of fear and imposing neo-Victorian values. As the recent book Unwanted Advances - Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (HarperCollins Publishers, April 2017) argues, "The new campus codes aren't preventing nonconsensual sex; they're producing it.” Written by Northwestern University professor and self-described left-wing feminist Laura Kipnis, the book exposes the vastly expanded definitions of sexual assault, which criminalize anything from drunken hook-ups to student-professor romance and even allow for consent to be withdrawn retroactively.
  168. The Torturer as Feminist: From Abu Ghraib to Zero Dark Thirty
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    How “feminism” is used in service of the American empire.
  169. Towards A Red Feminism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Red Feminism contests all forms of institutionalized feminism: from cultural feminism (which is making a comeback in the name of a commonsense fear of the "new," the "alien" and the technological) to postmodern feminisms with their bourgeois reifications of the pleasures and desires of commodity capitalism. Red Feminism challenges the effectivity of the new localist, "transnational" feminisms and calls for a renewed internationalism--with a historical and strategic use of the nation-state--to fight global capitalism. It insists on the priority of production and class struggle in the emancipation of women and reaffirms the solidarity of humanity on the basis of shared needs. Red Feminism thus moves away from individualistic desires and the limits of identity politics toward the collective struggle of international socialism.
  170. Transforming Power
    From the Personal to the Political
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
  171. Untying the Knot
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  172. The Ursula Franklin Reader 
    Pacifism as a Map
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
  173. We Are All Parts of One Another
    A Barbara Deming Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    These essays, speeches, letters, stories, and poems span four decades of writing on women and peace, feminism and nonviolence.
  174. We Need to Talk about Women: The Problem with Western Liberal 'Feminists'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Western women have fought hard and bravely for rights and privileges that were denied to generations of women before them and have made vast strides towards greater equality and representation in society. For this, western women and traditional feminism should be applauded. At the same time, the version of feminism that presently functions in the west -- liberal, consumer, mainstream feminism -- has become problematic.
  175. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
  176. What is Socialist Feminism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
  177. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
  178. Why Marx Was Right 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
  179. Woman in Ancient Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Using travellers' reports written between the 12th and 16th centuries, Loth challenges the traditional view of women in ancient Africa as subservient. The text, illustrated with 112 black-and-white and 46 full-colour photographs, reveals women in the time of the great African empires and city founders, religious leaders, traders, and family bread-winners as well as wives and mothers.
  180. Woman's Consciousness, Man's World 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    The cultural and economic liberation of women is inseparable from the creation of a society in which all people no longer have their lives stolen from them, and in which the conditions of their production and reproduction will no longer be distorted or held back by the subordination of sex, race, or class.
  181. Woman's Estate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1976
    Juliet Mitchell defines the specific areas of women's oppression and describes current attempts to break the pattern of repression imposed on all women.
  182. Women and Class
    Towards a Socialist Feminism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Draper situates the origins of the modern feminist movement in the revolutionary movements of the nineteenth century.
  183. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
  184. Women, Resistance and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1974
    A wide-ranging survey of the roots of inequality and of the long but sporadic struggles to covercome it. Her narrative extends from the seventeenth century to present-day (1970s) Vietnam, showing how certain women have struggled, in both revolutionary and repressive situations, to achieve liberation.
  185. Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings, a women's right activist, regarding the severity of sexual violence towards women and girls in Jamaica.
  186. Women Unite
    An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology doucmenting the Canadian women's movement of the late 1906s and early 1970s.
  187. 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.
  188. The Year of Awakening
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
  189. The Year of Awakening
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
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