Woman Under Socialism

Author : Kristen R. Ghodsee
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : August Bebel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359935420

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Woman Under Socialism (Esprios Classics) by August Bebel Pdf

Author : August Bebel
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664581372

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Woman under socialism by August Bebel Pdf

August Bebel's "Woman Under Socialism" paints a comprehensive picture of women's rights under Socialism. His description of the self-fulfilling nature of work in a socialist society for both men and women is crucial. It demonstrates why Marxism and feminism are mutually antagonistic in the sense that feminists see the basic division in society as being between men and women, whereas Marxists see the basic division in society as being between the capitalist class and the working class. Thus, Bebel and socialists believe that men and women must work and fight together to end oppression.

Author : Mari Jo Buhle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Helmut Gruber,Pamela Graves†,ontributors,
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : August Bebel
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547023906

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Woman and Socialism by August Bebel Pdf

Woman and Socialism is a political text by August Bebel. It contends the social liberation of women as an essential component in the change of social interactions, and as a way to promote socialism over capitalism.

Author : Sharon Smith
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608460625

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Women and Socialism by Sharon Smith Pdf

“A valuable and uncommon perspective . . . The book covers both theory of women’s oppression and the history and politics of women’s movements.” —Dana L. Cloud, author of Reality Bites More than forty years after the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, women remain without equal rights. If anything, each decade that has passed without a fighting women’s movement has seen a rise in blatant sexism and the further erosion of the gains that were won in the 1960s and 1970s. Yet liberal feminist organizations have followed the Democratic Party even as it has continually tacked rightward since the 1980s. This fully revised edition examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, focusing on the centrality of race and class. It includes chapters on the legacy of Black feminism and other movements of women of color and the importance of the concept of intersectionality. In addition, Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital explores the contributions of socialist feminists and Marxist feminists in further developing a Marxist analysis of women’s oppression amid the stirrings of a new movement today. Praise for Sharon Smith’s Subterranean Fire “Sharon Smith brings that history to life once again, blasting through the myths of the working class that Trump-era narratives cling to in order to connect us once again to the possibility of building broad solidarity.” —Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won’t Love You Back “A veteran worker-intellectual brilliantly addresses the crisis of the labor movement, skewering those who believe that renewal can come from the top down, and encouraging those who are fighting to rebuild it from the bottom up.” —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

Author : Sonia Kruks,Rayna Rapp,Marilyn Blatt Young
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780853457718

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Promissory Notes by Sonia Kruks,Rayna Rapp,Marilyn Blatt Young Pdf

Revolutionary socialist movements have held out the promise, in both theory and practice, that women can achieve liberation through their participation in the revolutionary process. But many women in post-revolutionary societies have watched in frustration as this promise has been pushed into the future or dropped from the agenda altogether. The essays in Promissory Notes renew the debate about the connections between feminism and socialism by examining the position of women in socialist thought from the time of Marx to the present. The book looks at the central theoretical formulations of the Woman Question in classical Marxist thought, then explores their applications first in the Soviet Union and China, then in a series of third world regimes and contemporary Eastern European countries. The volume ends with a roundtable debate in which a number of scholars and activists take up the central theoretical issues raised throughout the book. Contributors include Joan B. Landes, Elizabeth Waters, Wendy Zeva Goldman, Christina Gilmartin, Muriel Nazzari, Maxine D. Molyneux, Sonia Kurks and Ben Wisner, Christine Pelzer White, Amrita Basu, Marilyn B. Young, Mary Buckley, Barbara Einhorn, Martha Lampland, Lourdes Beneria, Zillah Eisenstein, Delia D. Aguilar, Delia Davin, Kumari Jayawardena, and Rayna Rapp.

Author : August Bebel
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1507693052

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Woman Under Socialism by August Bebel Pdf

"The end of social development resembles the beginning of human existence. The original equality returns. The mother-web of existence starts and rounds up the cycle of human affairs."--Bachofen.

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521458161

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Women, the State and Revolution by Wendy Z. Goldman Pdf

Focusing on how women, peasants and orphans responded to Bolshevk attempts to remake the family, this text reveals how, by 1936, legislation designed to liberate women had given way to increasingly conservative solutions strengthening traditional family values.

Author : June Hannam,Karen Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Rachel Connelly,Kristen Ghodsee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781442208605

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Professor Mommy by Rachel Connelly,Kristen Ghodsee Pdf

Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors' experiences together with those of other women who have successfully combined parenting with professorships. Professor Mommy addresses key questions—when to have children and how many, what kinds of academic institutions are the most family friendly, how to negotiate around the myths that many people hold about academic life, etc.—for women throughout all stages of their academic careers, from graduate school through full professor. The authors follow the demands of motherhood all the way from the infant stages through the empty nest. At each stage, the authors offer invaluable advice and tested strategies from women who have successfully juggled the demands and rewards of an academic career and motherhood. Written in clear, jargon-free prose, the book is accessible to women in all disciplines, with concise chapters for the time-constrained academic. The book's conversational tone is supplemented with a review of the most current scholarship on work/family balance and a survey of emerging family-friendly practices at U.S. colleges and universities. Professor Mommy asserts that the faculty mother has become and will remain a permanent fixture on the landscape of the American academy.The paperback edition features a new Preface that addresses the public conversation about mothers and work raised in Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and Ann Marie Slaughter’s Why Women Still Can’t Have it All. The new Preface also answers frequently asked questions from readers.

Author : Susan Gal,Gail Kligman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691048681

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Reproducing Gender by Susan Gal,Gail Kligman Pdf

The striking fact that abortion was among the first issues raised, after 1989, by almost all of the newly formed governments of East Central Europe points to the significance of gender and reproduction in the postsocialist transformations. The fourteen studies in this volume result from a comparative, collaborative research project on the complex relationship between ideas and practices of gender, and political economic change. The book presents detailed evidence about women's and men's new circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of politics and the life cycle, the differential effects of economic restructuring, and women's public and political participation. Individual contributions on the former German Democratic Republic, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria provide rich empirical data and interpretive insights on postsocialist transformation analyzed from a gendered perspective. Drawing on multiple methods and disciplines, these original papers advance scholarship in several fields, including anthropology, sociology, women's studies, law, comparative political science, and regional studies. The analyses make clear that practices of gender, and ideas about the differences between men and women, have been crucial in shaping the broad social changes that have followed the collapse of communism. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Eleonora Zieliãska, Eva Maleck-Lewy, Myra Marx Ferree, Sharon Wolchik, Irene Dölling, Daphne Hahn, Sylka Scholz, Mira Marody, Anna Giza-Poleszczuk, Katalin Kovács, Mónika Váradi, Julia Szalai, Adriana Baban, MaÏgorzata Fuszara, Laura Grunberg, Zorica Mrseviâ, Krassimira Daskalova, Joanna Goven, and Jasmina Lukiâ.

Author : Lynne Segal
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786631565

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Radical Happiness by Lynne Segal Pdf

Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others? In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal believes that we have lost the art of radical happiness- the art of transformative, collective joy. She shows that only in the revolutionary potential of coming together it is that we can come to understand the powers of flourishing. Radical Happiness is a passionate call for the re-discovery of the political and emotional joy that emerge when we learn to share our lives together.

Author : Naomi Judith Andrews
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0739108441

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Socialism's Muse by Naomi Judith Andrews Pdf

In Socialism's Muse Naomi J. Andrews examines the gender dynamics in French romantic socialist writings, and the way it shaped the feminism of the movement. It will appeal to scholars of gender and intellectual history, as well as historians of romanticism, feminism, socialism, and modern European history.