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Alexandra Kollontai and Red Love: Against The Current vol. 81
Ebert, Teresa L.
Article
1999
What is “Red Love”—and more specifically, what is a socialist, or more complexly, a communist theory of love and sexuality?
Am I a bad feminist?
Atwood, Margaret
Article
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...
Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing: Against The Current vol. 85
Tischler, Barbara L.
Article
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,...
Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
Feminists Against Censorship
Article
1992
Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
Bad Attitude/s On Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
Cossman, Brenda; Bell, Shannon; Gotell, Lise; Rose, Becki L
Book
1997
This work, wrtten by four Canadian feminist university professors, analyzes law and pornography.
Becoming a Revolutionary: Against The Current vol. 133
Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar
Article
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?
Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism
Rowbotham, Sheila; Segal, Lynne; Wainright, Hilary
Book
1979
A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
Black American Feminisms
Website
An extensive bibliography of black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines.
Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
Palmer, Bryan D.
Book
2008
A history of social movements of the 1960s, including Canada’s student and anti-war movements, the rise of women’s liberation, labour agitation, and Quebec’s independence movement.
Canadian Feminism And The Law: The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund and the Pursuit of Equality
Razack, Sherene
Book
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 Ch...
Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism: Book Review
Bailes, Jon
Article
2019
An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
A Century's Feminist Journey: Against The Current vol. 109
Moghadam, Val
Article
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. Sinc...
Color of Violence : The INCITE! Anthology
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (ed.)
Book
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...
Connexions: Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1978
Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus
Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
Continuous Excursions: Politics and Personal Life
Colman, Marshall
Book
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...
A Creative Tension: Key Issues of Socialist-Feminism
Meulenbelt, Anja, ed.
Book
1984
Examination of motherhood and feminism, psychoanalysis, the Third World, individual power, and traditional sex roles.
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America
Hughes, Robert
Book
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 unpleasan...
The "Date Rape" Issue: Feminist Hysteria, Anti-Sex Witchhunt
Article
1993
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...
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Bottomore, Tom
Book
1983
Ecofeminism: Connexipedia Article
Article
A social and political movement which points to the existence of considerable common ground between environmentalism and feminism.
The Emperor's New Penis: The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women
Keith, Lierre; Jensen, Derrick
Article
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 sched...
Fallen Pan, Furious Women, and the Failure of Soulless Feminism
Domenico, Kim C.
Article
2018
The excited triumphal coverage of the Me Too Movement conveys the fatal devaluing of imagination - and the banning of thoughtful discourse as well as passionate enthusiasm - that defines and shackle...
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Book
1989
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 ...
The Female Eunuch
Greer, Germaine
Book
1971
Female Well-Being: Toward a global theory of social change
Billson, Janet Mancini; Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn (eds.)
Book
2005
Feminism: Connexipedia Article
Article
Used to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing more rights and legal protection for women.
Feminism and Sadomasochism
Califia, Pat
Article
1981
Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
Feminism in Canada
Miles, Angela; Finn, Geraldine
Book
1982
An attempt to lay down theoretical and methodological principles of feminist scholarship.
Feminism in Canada: Against The Current vol. 122
Wright, Cynthia
Article
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 ora...
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
Rowbotham, Sheila
Article
1973
There existed a strong minority tradition in radicalism which questioned the whole social and sexual position of women.
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
Jayawardena, Kumari
Book
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...
Feminism, Politcal Economy, and the State
Armstrong, Pat; Connelly, Patricia M
Book
Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance
Benhabib, Seyla
Article
1995
A discussion of feminist theory, particularly the usefulness of postmodernism as a theoretical concept. From the book "Feminist Contentions. A Philosophical Exchange."
Feminism, The Global Struggle: Against The Current vol. 139
Bose, Purnima
Article
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...
Feminism vs. Marxism: Origins of the Conflict
Article
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 e...
Feminism's Global Contradictions: Against The Current vol. 148
Hubler, Angela
Article
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 negat...
Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview: Against The Current vol. 163
Brenner, Johanna
Article
2013
Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
Feminist Issues In Prostitution
Bromberg, Sarah
Article
1997
The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
Feminist Organizing for Change: The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada
Adamson, Nancy; Briskin, Linda; McPhail, Margaret, eds.
Book
1988
A Feminist Reader for Today: Against The Current vol. 109
Hubler, Angela E.
Article
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...
Feminist Resource Materials
Book
1977
A constantly updated bibliography of materials related to women's issues in Canada.
Feminists Against Censorship
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 ...
The First Stone: Homosexuality and the United Church
Riordon, Michael
Book
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 person...
Flaunting It!
Jackson, Ed; Perksy, Stan (eds.)
Book
1982
An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
Friedan, Betty: Connexipedia Article
Article
American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
Gaza's women of steel
Gadzo, Mersiha
Article
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.
Globalization and Feminism: Against The Current vol. 135
Hubler, Angela E.
Article
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...
Good Girls, Bad Girls: Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
Bell Laurie
Book
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.
Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism
Plant, Judith
Book
1989
An anthology of writings on ecofeminism.
Home!: A Bioregional Reader
Andruss, Van, Plant, Christopher, Plant, Judith, Wright, Eleanor
Book
1990
A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it
Fraser, Nancy
Article
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 feminis...
How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
Mendes, Kaitlynn
Article
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 ...
I Am a Woman and a Human: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory
Article
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 bl...
If this is feminism...
Oliver, Kelly
Article
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 pol...
Imagine Democracy
Rebick, Judy
Book
2000
Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
Interview with Ulli Diemer
Diemer, Ulli; Orchard, Jeff
Article
1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
Is Feminist Ethics Possible?
Code, Lorraine ; Ford, Maureen ; Martindale, Kathleen ; Sherwin, Susan ; Shogan, Debra
Book
1991
Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics?
Anonymous
Article
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 j...
The Kurdish struggle - An interview with Dilar Dirik
Souvli, George
Article
2017
Dilar Dirik interviewed by George Souvlis.
Learning to struggle: my story between workerism and feminism
Fortunati, Leopoldina
Article
2013
An account of an Italian Marxist feminist's experiences and development in the autonomist and feminist movements in Italy in the 1970s.
Machismo and Its Discontents: Against The Current vol. 134
Ferguson, Ann
Article
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...
Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
Brown, Heather
Book
2013
A study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family.
Marx rediscovered: A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
McGregor, Sheila
Article
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 rol...
Marxism and women's oppression today
McGregor, Sheila
Article
2013
Times reflect how much in society in relation to women has changed, but also how much appears to have stayed the same.
Marxism, Feminism, the State: Volume 1
Socialist Studies Editorial Collective
Book
1983
Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
Marxism, feminism and transgender politics
Caldwell, Sue
Unclassified
2017
An examination of feminism and transgender politics through a Marxist lens.
Marxist feminism: Connexipedia Article
Article
Focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as the key to liberating women.
Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
Draper, Hal; Lipow, Anne G.
Article
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 ...
Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
Domenico, Kim C.
Article
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 ti...
Media Think
Winter, James
Book
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 diver...
Montreal: Campus Feminists Fail to Gag Marxists: For Women's Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
Article
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 not...
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism
Roiphe, Katie
Book
1993
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 su...
Movement for Christian Feminism
Article
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 ...
Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-Examines Abortion
McDonnell, Kathleen
Book
1986
McDonnell describes the often conflicting needs and emotions experienced prior to and after abortion.
Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
Brodribb, Somer
Book
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-Fr...
On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader
Heschel, Susannah (ed.)
Book
1983
This collection explores the myths and images of women that delimit women's growth within Judaism.
On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
Tutchell, Eva; Edmonds, John
Article
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.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016: Working class organizing
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
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. I...
Our Generation: Volume 10 Number 2
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1974
Our Generation: Volume 10 Number 3
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1974
Our Generation: Volume 17 Number 1
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1985
Our Generation: Volume 19 Number 1
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Article
1987
Our Generation: Volume 19 number 2
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1988
Our Generation: Volume 21 Number 1
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1989
Our Generation: Volume 21 Number 2
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1990
Our Generation: Volume 23 Number 2
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1992
Our Generation: Volume 24 Number 1
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1992
A Parable of Women's Liberation: Against The Current vol. 134
Tax, Meredith
Article
2008
Interview with Meredith Tax.
A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Zinn, Howard
Book
1995
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
Piecing It Together: Feminism and Non-Violence
Feminism and Non Violence Study Group
Book
1983
...
Pioneers of Women's Liberation
Holmstrom, nancy
Article
2015
A review of Hal Draper's book "Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism."
Pioneers of Women's Liberation: Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism (Book Review)
Holmstrom, Nancy (Reviewer); Draper, Hal (Author)
Article
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 qual...
Pornography in a Free Society
Hawkins, Gordon, and Zimring, Franklin E.
Book
1988
An examination of public policy debates about pornography in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Pornography and the Sex Censors: A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
Crossen, Cathy
Article
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 antagoni...
Post-war Left Feminism - review: Against The Current vol. 163
Lieberman, Robbie
Article
2013
A review of 'Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture' by Kathlene McDonald.
The Power of Women United: Against The Current vol. 134
Dawson, Kipp
Article
2008
Interview with Kipp Dawson.
The Professor of Parody
Nussbaum, Martha
Article
2000
It is difficult to come to grips with Judith Butler’s ideas because it is difficult to figure out what they are.
Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism
McCaskell, Tim
Book
2016
A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
Radical Digressions 5
Diemer, Ulli
Website
2008
The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program, and Organizational Structure
Book
2001
The complete guide to Radical Women, an activist, multiracial, queer and straight socialist feminist organization.
Reading Red Women Writers
Christopher, Renny
Article
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.
Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History
McKay, Ian
Book
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-capita...
Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Goldman, Emma (edited by Shulman, Alix Kates)
Book
1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
Red Pepper
Serial Publication (Periodical)
Independent magazine of the green and radical left.
Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
Milkman, Ruth
Unclassified
2015
Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
Review: The Politics of Some Bodies - On "Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection"
Drucker, Peter
Article
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 Everybo...
Revolutionary Feminism, Communist Interventions vol. 3
Communist Research Cluster
Article
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 ca...
The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation:
Dixon, Marlene
Article
1977
Dixon uses a Marxist analysis to try to explain the decline of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's.
Rise of the naked female warriors
Cochrane, Kira
Article
2013
Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
Second-wave Feminism (USA): Connexipedia Article
Article
Period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted throughout the late 1970s.
Sex, Scandals and Power: #MeToo Mania and the Democrats' "Resistance"
Article
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 ...
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Dore, Mary (director)
Film/Video
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 ...
Side By Side
Joseph, Helen
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 p...
Sign Crimes/Road Kill: From Mediascape to Landscape
Nelson, Joyce
Book
1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
Siegel, Deborah
Book
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...
Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn't Asking You to Think About
D'Arcy, Steve
Article
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...
Socialist Feminism: The First Decade, 1966-76
Martin, Gloria
Book
1978
The forging of the Freedom Socialist Party, which was the first Marxist feminist party in the United States.
The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politcs
Holmstrom, Nancy
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.
The Socialist Register 1976: Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1976
The Socialist Register 1980: Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1980
The Socialist Register 1983: Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1983
The Socialist Register 1989: Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1989
The Socialist Register 1990: Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals
Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1990
Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
Socialist Register 1993: Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1993
Socialist Register 2013: Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
Serial Publication (Periodical)
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...
Steady Hands for Freedom: Book Review
Brewer, Rose M.
Article
2014
Book Review of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC" by Faith S. Holsaert, et. al
Storming Heaven: 1968 Revisted
Ali, Tariq
Article
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.
Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution
Rebick, Judy
Book
2005
Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Theories of Patriarchy
German, Lindsey
Article
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...
There Is a War on Ordinary People, and Feminists Are Needed at the Front
Pilger, John
Article
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 th...
Tide Turning in Latin America?: Against The Current vol. 131
Quandt, Midge
Article
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 continen...
Title IX Witchhunts, Anti-Sex Frenzy and Bourgeois Feminism: Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - A Review
Article
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 ...
The Torturer as Feminist: From Abu Ghraib to Zero Dark Thirty
Cornell, Matt
Article
2013
How “feminism” is used in service of the American empire.
Towards A Red Feminism
Ebert, Teresa
Article
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 ...
Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political
Rebick, Judy
Book
2009
Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
Untying the Knot
Freeman, Jo; Levine, Cathy
Book
The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map
Franklin, Ursula; Swenarchuk, Michelle
Book
2006
A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
We Are All Parts of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
Meyerding, Jane (ed.)
Book
These essays, speeches, letters, stories, and poems span four decades of writing on women and peace, feminism and nonviolence.
We Need to Talk about Women: The Problem with Western Liberal 'Feminists'
Chehade, Ghada
Article
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 soci...
Weatherman
Jacobs, Harold
Book
1971
A history of the Weatherman organization.
What is Socialist Feminism?
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Article
1976
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
Diemer, Ulli
Article
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 'fem...
Why Marx Was Right
Eagleton, Terry
Book
2011
Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
Woman in Ancient Africa
Loth, Heinrich
Book
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 an...
Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Rowbotham, Sheila
Book
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 produc...
Woman's Estate
Mitchell, Juliet
Book
1966
Juliet Mitchell defines the specific areas of women's oppression and describes current attempts to break the pattern of repression imposed on all women.
Women and Class: Towards a Socialist Feminism
Draper, Hal
Book
2011
Draper situates the origins of the modern feminist movement in the revolutionary movements of the nineteenth century.
Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
Article
1991
Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
Women, Resistance and Revolution
Rowbotham, Sheila
Book
1972
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 ...
Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
Podur, Justin; Cummings, Joan Joy Grant
Article
2017
Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings, a women's right activist, regarding the severity of sexual violence towards women and girls in Jamaica.
Women Unite: An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement
Book
1972
An anthology doucmenting the Canadian women's movement of the late 1906s and early 1970s.
Women's Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation: A Marxist Analysis
Zamora, Laura
Article
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...
The Year of Awakening: Against The Current vol. 133
Winslow, Barbara
Article
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?

Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites

Against the Current
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
AK Press
AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books, visual and audio media, and other mind-altering material. We're small: a dozen people who work long hours for short mo...
Arusha Cross-Cultural Centre
Stimulate reflection and action by Canadians to promote equitable development of peoples at home and abroad, and communication and understanding among people of different cultures.
Briarpatch
Briarpatch is Saskatchewan's independent alternative newsmagazine committed to building a socialist society. We provide an open forum for disadvantaged peoples and support progressive movements workin...
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
CRIAW is a national organization that promotes and disseminates feminist research through: a Bank of Researchers; research grants, awards and prizes; publication of research papers and research tools;...
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Established in 1960, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nation...
Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada
Advocate for accessible, affordable, high quality, comprehensive, not for profit child care for every Canadian.
Childbirth by Choice Trust
To educate the public on the issues of birth control, abortion and family planning.
CounterCurrents.org
An alternative news site based in India. We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate o...
Feminist.com
News, resources, links to activist pages dealing with women's rights and equality. Articles, speeches, documents. Classified ads.
Feminists for Free Expression
Feminists for Free Expression (FFE) is a group of diverse feminists working to preserve the individual's right to see, hear and produce materials of her choice without the intervention of the state "f...
MATCH International
To promote the welfare of women in Canada and overseas, by funding projects, while ephasizing a feminist vision of development.
METRAC (The Metro Action Committee on Public Violence )
Promotes the rights of women and children to live free from violence and threats of violence.
New Society Publishers
New Society Publishers' mission is to publish books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so with the least possible impact upon the e...
News and Letters
An organization of Marxist-Humanists standing for the abolition of capitalism, both in its private property form and ins its state property form. We stand for the deveopment of new human relations; wh...
Off Our Backs
Off Our Backs is a nonprofit organization run by a collective where decisions are made by consensus. Formerly a print news journal by, for, and about women, off our backs was published from 1970 to 20...
Second Story Press
Dedicated to publishing feminist-inspired books for adults and young readers.
Society for Socialist Studies
The society's purpose to facilitate and encourage research and analysis in Canada with emphasis on socialist, feminist, ecological, and anti-racist points of view.
Solidarity
A democratic revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization which publishes Against the Current magazine. Solidarity is an independent socialist organization dedicated to forming a bro...
This Magazine
This Magazine tells you what's happening and why. News across Canada, award-winning investigations, columnists, fiction, poetry, comics, more!

Sources Library

Aletta Institute for Women's History
The Aletta Institute holds books, magazines, archives, works of music, photographs, posters, diaries, letters, all sorts of household and personal objects relevant to women and women’s lives. Home of ...
European Labour History Network - Working Group on Feminist Labour History
2013
The founding meeting of the ELHN took place at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) on 12 October 2013. The forty scholars who gathered in Amsterdam, belonging to research institutions...
Feminist Perspectives on Trans issues
2009
The relationship between feminism and transgender theory and politics is surprisingly fraught. The goal in this entry is to outline some of the key philosophical issues at the intersections, and this ...
Intelligent Compassion
Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Confortini, Catia Cecilia
2012
The leaders of the American Womens March have spoken: Jews are unwelcome on the feminist left
Teitel, Emma
2018
Columnist Emma Teitel draws attention to the problematic relationship between US Women's March organizers and antisemetic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
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Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Why Do Establishment Feminists Hate Sex Workers?
Rosen, David
2018
On March 21st, 2018, U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats joined together to overwhelmingly pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA); the House had earlier passed the Allow States and Victi...

From the Connexions Archives

Against the Current
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1986
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
Feminist Majority Foundation
Website
News, resources, articles, and links of interest to women on a wide range of topics. Access to archives and searchable databases of documents.
Feminist.COM
Website
News, resources, links to activist pages dealing with women's rights and equality. Articles, speeches, documents. Classified ads.
News and Letters
Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
Resources for Feminist Research (RFR)
Documentation Sur La Recherche Feministe (DRF) - Periodical profile published 1983
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1983
They Are Burning Effigies They Are Burning Effigies Why, Why, Why, Effigies?
Morton, Peggy
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...