Socialist Women

Author : June Hannam,Karen Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134766680

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Socialist Women by June Hannam,Karen Hunt Pdf

This fascinating new study examines the experiences of women involved in the socialist movement during its formative years in Britain and the active role they played in campaigning for the vote. By giving full attention to this much-neglected group of women, Socialist Women examines and challenges the orthodox views of labour and suffrage history. Torn between competing loyalties of gender, class and politics, socialist women did not have a fixed identity but a number of contested identities. June Hannam and Karen Hunt probe issues that created divisions between these women, as well as giving them the opportunity to act together. In three fascinating case studies they explore: * women's suffrage * women and internationalism * the politics of consumption. Believing above all that being a woman was vital to their politics, these individuals sought to develop a woman-focused theory of socialism and to put this new politics into practice.

Author : Marilyn J. Boxer,Jean Helen Quataert
Publisher : New York : Elsevier North-Holland
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062115830

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Socialist Women by Marilyn J. Boxer,Jean Helen Quataert Pdf

Monographic compilation of essays on historical aspects of the European women's social movement for women's rights through socialism - examines feminist ideology of flora tristan in France, role of female political participation, the Russian revolutionary movement of the 1870s, woman worker and working class aspirations in imperial Germany, feminism and Marxism in Italy, political leadership of aleksandra kolontai in the USSR, etc. Bibliographys and photographs.

Author : Mari Jo Buhle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252010450

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Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 by Mari Jo Buhle Pdf

Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women's rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women's efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women's emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.

Author : Kristen R. Ghodsee
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781568588896

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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen R. Ghodsee Pdf

A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance and, yes, even better sex. In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The response was tremendous — clearly she articulated something many women had sensed for years: the problem is with capitalism, not with us. Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer and professor of Russian and East European Studies, spent years researching what happened to women in countries that transitioned from state socialism to capitalism. She argues here that unregulated capitalism disproportionately harms women, and that we should learn from the past. By rejecting the bad and salvaging the good, we can adapt some socialist ideas to the 21st century and improve our lives. She tackles all aspects of a woman's life - work, parenting, sex and relationships, citizenship, and leadership. In a chapter called "Women: Like Men, But Cheaper," she talks about women in the workplace, discussing everything from the wage gap to harassment and discrimination. In "What To Expect When You're Expecting Exploitation," she addresses motherhood and how "having it all" is impossible under capitalism. Women are standing up for themselves like never before, from the increase in the number of women running for office to the women's march to the long-overdue public outcry against sexual harassment. Interest in socialism is also on the rise -- whether it's the popularity of Bernie Sanders or the skyrocketing membership numbers of the Democratic Socialists of America. It's become increasingly clear to women that capitalism isn't working for us, and Ghodsee is the informed, lively guide who can show us the way forward.

Author : Miglena S. Todorova
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487528430

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Unequal under Socialism by Miglena S. Todorova Pdf

Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. Roma women, Muslim women, ethnic Bulgarian women, sex workers, and female factory and office workers were among those marked by socialist authorities for prosperity, accommodation, violent reformation, or erasure. Covering the period from the 1930s to the present and drawing upon original archival sources as well as a constellation of critical theories, Unequal under Socialism focuses on the lives of different women to articulate deep doubt about the capacity of socialism to sustain societies where all women prosper. Such doubt, the book suggests, is an under-recognized but important force shaping how women in former socialist countries have related to one another and to other women in the global North and South.

Author : Wang Zheng
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520292284

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Finding Women in the State by Wang Zheng Pdf

Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early PeopleÕs Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices, all while facing fierce opposition from a male-dominated CCP leadership from the Party Central to the local government. Wang Zheng extends this investigation to the cultural realm, showing how feminists within ChinaÕs film industry were working to actively create new cinematic heroines, and how they continued a New Culture anti-patriarchy heritage in socialist film production. This book illuminates not only the different visions of revolutionary transformation but also the dense entanglements among those in the top echelon of the party. Wang discusses the causes for failure of ChinaÕs socialist revolution and raises fundamental questions about male dominance in social movements that aim to pursue social justice and equality. This is the first book engendering the PRC high politics and has important theoretical and methodological implications for scholars and students working in gender studies as well as China studies.

Author : Mari Jo Buhle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252054457

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Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 by Mari Jo Buhle Pdf

Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women's rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women's efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women's emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.

Author : Gloria Martin
Publisher : Red Letter Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0932323006

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Socialist Feminism: The First Decade, 1966-76 by Gloria Martin Pdf

Records the forging of the first Marxist feminist party in history -- the Freedom Socialist Party. Set in the tumultuous upsurges of the 1960s and '70s, Gloria Martin vividly describes the eruption of the women's liberation movement amidst the antiwar and civil rights struggles. Martin documents early lesbian and gay coalitions, the fight to legalize abortion in Washington State, radical labor organizing, community mobilizations against police brutality and poverty, campus upsurges, and the growth of the FSP's sister organization, Radical Women. She scathingly critiques the role of the Socialist Workers Party and other Left groups typified by sexism and opportunism. To them, she contrasts the Freedom Socialist Party's multi-issue focus on reaching those most oppressed as workingclass people of color, women, and sexual minorities. From the on-the-ground perspective of a seasoned organizer, Martin probes with a sharp scalpel the internal conflicts in the movements for social change. This is a story of years of intense work by radical women and men. It is a chronicle, a reference, an analysis, a judgment, and a guidebook. Its central message is inescapable: socialist feminism as a theme and strategy has never been more urgently needed than it is today.

Author : Helmut Gruber,Pamela Graves†,ontributors,
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785330063

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Women and Socialism - Socialism and Women by Helmut Gruber,Pamela Graves†,ontributors, Pdf

Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role of women within the history of the interwar years, whenboth the women's and socialist movements became prominent, and raises the key question of how power was distributed between the genders in a historical setting. The emblematic title of this volume highlights the fundamental conception of this comparative study of eleven West European countries: that in the interwar decades two great movements gained in strength, converged, diverged, competed, and cooperated. Each of these movements is viewed as acomplex matrix of organized and unorganized participants. However, by far the most provocative questions deal with gender relations. Central to these are definitions of femininity and masculinity in terms of mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion at the workplace, in the home, and in the political arena. The mystique of the "new woman" in the 1920s and the 1930s challenged traditional notions of gender identity and relations, not the least of which was the redefinition of the role of men. The main issue addressed in this volume is not how male socialists "dealt with" the woman question or how women functioned in or outside left-wingparties; it rather centers on illustrating the power distribution between the sexes in specific political and cultural contexts. This rigorously focused and coherent volume, to which some of the best-known scholars in the field have contributed, will no doubt establish itself as the standard reference work for years to come.

Author : Kristen Ghodsee
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478003274

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Second World, Second Sex by Kristen Ghodsee Pdf

Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe—what used to be called the Second World—once dominated women’s activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those of Western feminists. In Second World, Second Sex Kristen Ghodsee rescues some of this lost history by tracing the activism of Eastern European and African women during the 1975 United Nations International Year of Women and the subsequent Decade for Women (1976-1985). Focusing on case studies of state socialist Bulgaria and nonaligned but socialist-leaning Zambia, Ghodsee examines the feminist networks that developed between the Second and Third Worlds and shows how alliances between socialist women challenged American women’s leadership of the global women’s movement. Drawing on interviews and archival research across three continents, Ghodsee argues that international ideological competition between capitalism and socialism profoundly shaped the world women inhabit today.

Author : S. Penn,J. Massino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230101579

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Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe by S. Penn,J. Massino Pdf

This book showcases extensive research on gender under state socialism, examining the subject in terms of state policy and law; sexuality and reproduction; the academy; leisure; the private sphere; the work world; opposition activism; and memory and identity.

Author : Zsófia Lóránd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319782232

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The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia by Zsófia Lóránd Pdf

This book tells the story of new Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, reassessing the effects of state socialism on women’s emancipation through the lens of the feminist critique. This volume explores the history of the ideas defining a social movement, analysing the major debates and arguments this milieu engaged in from the perspective of the history of political thought, intellectual history and cultural history. Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, societies in and scholars of East Central Europe still struggle to sort out the effects of state socialism on gender relations in the region. What could tell us more about the subject than the ideas set out by the only organised and explicitly feminist opposition in the region, who, as academics, artists, writers and activists, criticised the regime and demanded change?

Author : Lydia Sargent
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0919619207

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Women and Revolution by Lydia Sargent Pdf

Women and Revolution deals with contemporary feminist political theory and practice. It is a debate concerning the importance of patriarchy and sexism in industrialized societies - are sexual differences and kin relations as critical to social outcome as economic relations? What is the dynamic between class and sex? Is one or the other dominant? How do they interact? What are the implications for social change? In The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism, Hartmann argues that class and patriarchy are equally important and that neither a narrow feminism nor an economist Marxism will suffice to help us understand or change modern society - instead we need a theory that can integrate the two analyses.

Author : Alena Heitlinger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349045679

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Women and State Socialism by Alena Heitlinger Pdf

Author : Batya Weinbaum
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0896080455

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The Curious Courtship of Women's Liberation and Socialism by Batya Weinbaum Pdf

[Analyzes] economy in 'kin categories' - wife, father, daughter, brother....[Weinbaum] explains better than Marx the roles of each of these individuals within the economic system.--Seventh Sister