Intro to Marxist Feminism
STUDY BLOCK: POLITICAL ECONOMY, ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY
Image: Women of the World, Unite! March 8, 1917, women textile workers in St. Petersburg.
Extract of Events Guide, March, 2020 @The People’s Forum.
Study Materials.
The Origin of the Family
Frederich Engels. 30-31; 39-41; 87-88.
Only in Conjunction with the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism be Victorious!
Clara Zetkin
The Social Basis of the Woman's Question
Alexandra Kollontai
Marxist and Socialist Feminism
Elisabeth Armstrong
1947-8, Woman Against Myth
Betty Millard
A Letter from Claudia Jones to Betty Millard, 1947, addressing Millard’s draft of “A Woman Against Myth”
1949, An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!
Claudia Jones
“The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women” from Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
In Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici argues that the social position of women and control over their bodies changed drastically in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. For capitalism to exist the working class had to be created and this meant deep transformations in the lives and the society of those who would compose that emerging new social class. In this chapter, Federici discusses these transformations and the specific way in which they affected women.
FILMS!
"Life and Debt" (2001), by Stephanie Black.
"Chain of Love" (2002) , Marije Meerman.
"Who's Counting: Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics" (1995), by Terre Nash.