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I. A Marxist analysis of women's oppression  
I. A Marxist analysis of women's oppression  


What are we learning from our classics? Marx and Engels "Origin of the family, private property and the State" - Dialectical and not cultural or psychological material analysis of gender difference - sexual division of labour - importance of reproduction - an intuition on the family  
What are we learning from our classics? Marx and Engels "Origin of the family, private property and the State" - Dialectical and not cultural or psychological<br> material analysis of gender difference - sexual division of labour - importance of reproduction - an intuition on the family<br>
Concepts that will be taken up and updated by femsoc in the 1970s and by the current TRS  
Concepts that will be taken up and updated by femsoc in the 1970s and by the current TRS<br>
Origin of the oppression of women  
Origin of the oppression of women<br>
Societies analysed in written history, all patriarchal, of different forms in combination with the mode of production.
Societies analysed in written history, all patriarchal, of different forms in combination with the mode of production<br>
Examining other pre-historic societies: discussion among anthropologists and archaeologists on the interpretation of resources.
Examining other pre-historic societies: discussion among anthropologists and archaeologists on the interpretation of resources<br>
Consensus on the existence of nomadic communities, gatherers and harvesters, more egalitarian, before the Neolithic and the existence of private property.
Consensus on the existence of nomadic communities, gatherers and harvesters, more egalitarian, before the Neolithic and the existence of private property<br>
Analysis of pre-colonial societies gives us clues, no security.
Analysis of pre-colonial societies gives us clues, not certainty<br>
Conclusion. Gender relations are not a fixed and eternal fact but vary according to history, environment and production methods.
Conclusion. Gender relations are not a fixed and eternal fact but vary according to history, environment and production methods<br>




II. Sex, gender, family, violence  
II. Sex, gender, family, violence<br>
1. Gender identity is socially constructed  
1. Gender identity is socially constructed<br>
2. The family  
2. The family<br>
The family changes in time and space -> we can imagine another Role of the family in capitalism:  
The family changes in time and space -> we can imagine another Role of the family in capitalism:<br>
- economic : daily and generational reproduction of the labour force, consumption of goods  
- economic : daily and generational reproduction of the labour force, consumption of goods<br>
- social : refuge, damping of tensions caused by exploitation and alienation  
- social : refuge, damping of tensions caused by exploitation and alienation<br>
- but contradictory - ideological and psychological :  
- but contradictory - ideological and psychological :<br>
gender, discipline, status quo certification ---→ to obtain this : gender violence against women and dissenting sexual identities
gender, discipline, status quo certification ---→ to obtain this : gender violence against women and dissenting sexual identities<br>


III. New feminist movement and its antecedents  
III. New feminist movement and its antecedents<br>
Women have always struggled in popular movements  
Women have always struggled in popular movements<br>
We speak of feminism when they struggle with a gender consciousness  
We speak of feminism when they struggle with a gender consciousness<br>
We speak of a wave when the mass of women is concerned and a large part is mobilized with strong effects in society  
We speak of a wave when the mass of women is concerned and a large part is mobilized with strong effects in society<br>
1. First wave - in Europe - in the colonized countries struggles for legal equality, suffrage, access to education and employment  
1. First wave - in Europe - in the colonized countries struggles for legal equality, suffrage, access to education and employment<br>
2. Second wave - the staff is political - role of psychoanalysis - sexual liberation of women and LGBTQ subjects - symbol construction and androcentrism  
2. Second wave - the staff is political - role of psychoanalysis - sexual liberation of women and LGBTQ subjects - symbol construction and androcentrism<br>
3. Today Third wave - departs from the peripheral countries  
3. Today Third wave - departs from the peripheral countries<br>
- independently of other social opposition movements (not in the wake of...)  
- independently of other social opposition movements (not in the wake of...)<br>
- in a context of multiple crises: economic and financial, social, environmental, reproductive,... where women, having conquered rights and freedoms in the 20th century have the most to lose.
- in a context of multiple crises: economic and financial, social, environmental, reproductive,... where women, having conquered rights and freedoms in the 20th century have the most to lose<br>
Feminization of social movements - relationship between the two
Feminization of social movements - relationship between the two<br>


- Characteristics of the 3rd wave:  
- Characteristics of the 3rd wave:<br>
new generation, political movement, intersectional, importance of LGBTQI issues, centrality of the issue of macho violence, structural.  
new generation, political movement, intersectional, importance of LGBTQI issues, centrality of the issue of macho violence, structural.<br>
theoretical reference to the TRS and constructivist eco-feminism.  
theoretical reference to the TRS and constructivist eco-feminism.<br>
appropriation and transformation of the traditional workers' movement's tools of struggle: the feminist strike, the spaces of mutual aid and new mutualism, social reproduction as an issue of class struggle.
appropriation and transformation of the traditional workers' movement's tools of struggle: the feminist strike, the spaces of mutual aid and new mutualism, social reproduction as an issue of class struggle.<br>




Excerpts from Cinzia Aruzza's Dangerous Liasons [https://4edu.info/images/a/a8/Dangerous_liasons_selection_%28ENG%29.pdf]
* Excerpts from [['''Friedrich Engels''', Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State]]  


[https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/communism-family.htm Alexandra Kollontai, Communism and the Family]
* '''Adrienne Rich''' [[Criticism of heterosexuality]]<br>
 
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) - poet and radical feminist<br>
Her first book on feminist issues was: '''Of Women born; Motherhood as Experience and Institution'''(1976)<br>
This text is an extract from the essay '''Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence''' published as an essay in 1980 <br>
and republished in her book '''Blood, Bread and Poetry''' (1986).
 
* [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article2407 What is ecofeminism? Interview with Yayo Herrero]
 
* [https://4edu.info/images/d/d3/Kumari_Jayawardena.pdf Extract from: Kumari Jayawardena: 'Feminism and nationalism in the third world', chapter 4: Women's struggles and "emancipation from above" in Iran]
 
* [https://4edu.info/images/f/f9/Tithi_Bhattacharya.pdf Extracts: Tithi Bhattacharya, "Introduction: Mapping SRT" in Social Reproduction Theory & "How not to skip class: social reproduction of labor and the global working class".]

Latest revision as of 16:09, 5 November 2019

Prerequisite: Comment to the Privilege Walk.

Comments on the Privilege Walk. Intersectionality

WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS FIGHTING FOR GENDER AND SEXUAL LIBERATION

I. A Marxist analysis of women's oppression

What are we learning from our classics? Marx and Engels "Origin of the family, private property and the State" - Dialectical and not cultural or psychological
material analysis of gender difference - sexual division of labour - importance of reproduction - an intuition on the family
Concepts that will be taken up and updated by femsoc in the 1970s and by the current TRS
Origin of the oppression of women
Societies analysed in written history, all patriarchal, of different forms in combination with the mode of production
Examining other pre-historic societies: discussion among anthropologists and archaeologists on the interpretation of resources
Consensus on the existence of nomadic communities, gatherers and harvesters, more egalitarian, before the Neolithic and the existence of private property
Analysis of pre-colonial societies gives us clues, not certainty
Conclusion. Gender relations are not a fixed and eternal fact but vary according to history, environment and production methods


II. Sex, gender, family, violence
1. Gender identity is socially constructed
2. The family
The family changes in time and space -> we can imagine another Role of the family in capitalism:
- economic : daily and generational reproduction of the labour force, consumption of goods
- social : refuge, damping of tensions caused by exploitation and alienation
- but contradictory - ideological and psychological :
gender, discipline, status quo certification ---→ to obtain this : gender violence against women and dissenting sexual identities

III. New feminist movement and its antecedents
Women have always struggled in popular movements
We speak of feminism when they struggle with a gender consciousness
We speak of a wave when the mass of women is concerned and a large part is mobilized with strong effects in society
1. First wave - in Europe - in the colonized countries struggles for legal equality, suffrage, access to education and employment
2. Second wave - the staff is political - role of psychoanalysis - sexual liberation of women and LGBTQ subjects - symbol construction and androcentrism
3. Today Third wave - departs from the peripheral countries
- independently of other social opposition movements (not in the wake of...)
- in a context of multiple crises: economic and financial, social, environmental, reproductive,... where women, having conquered rights and freedoms in the 20th century have the most to lose
Feminization of social movements - relationship between the two

- Characteristics of the 3rd wave:
new generation, political movement, intersectional, importance of LGBTQI issues, centrality of the issue of macho violence, structural.
theoretical reference to the TRS and constructivist eco-feminism.
appropriation and transformation of the traditional workers' movement's tools of struggle: the feminist strike, the spaces of mutual aid and new mutualism, social reproduction as an issue of class struggle.


Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) - poet and radical feminist
Her first book on feminist issues was: Of Women born; Motherhood as Experience and Institution(1976)
This text is an extract from the essay Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence published as an essay in 1980
and republished in her book Blood, Bread and Poetry (1986).