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[https://4edu.info/index.php?title=%27%27%27Friedrich_Engels%27%27%27,_Origins_of_the_Family,_Private_Property_and_the_State Excerpts from Friedrich Engels, Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State] in [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/preface.htm Preface to the first edition, 1884] | |||
World Congress resolution 1979 “Socialist revolution and the struggle for women's liberation” read Fragments | [https://fourth.international/en/world-congresses/11th-world-congress-1979 World Congress resolution 1979 “Socialist revolution and the struggle for women's liberation”] read [https://4edu.info/index.php?title=Resolution_from_11th_World_Congress_(1979):_%22Socialist_revolution_and_the_struggle_for_women%27s_liberation%22._Fragments. Fragments] | ||
IC Resolution 2021 New Rise of the Women's Movement | [https://fourth.international/en/international-committee/666/299 IC Resolution 2021 New Rise of the Women's Movement] | ||
Remarks on Gender (Cinzia Arruzza) | [https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article3718 Remarks on Gender (Cinzia Arruzza)] | ||
'''Further readings''' | '''Further readings''' | ||
[https://4edu.info/index.php?title=Criticism_of_heterosexuality Extract from the essay Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence Adrienne Rich Criticism of heterosexuality 1980] | |||
Extract from the essay Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence | |||
Extracts: Tithi Bhattacharya, "Introduction: Mapping SRT" in Social Reproduction Theory & "How not to skip class: social reproduction of labor and the global working class". | [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".] | ||
What is ecofeminism? Interview with Yayo Herrero | [https://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://archive.newpol.org/issue34/brenne34.htm Johanna Brenner “Transnational Feminism and The Struggle for Global Justice”] | |||
'''Quotations:''' | '''Quotations:''' | ||
Fourth International Resolution: On Lesbian/Gay Liberation 2003: | ''Fourth International Resolution: On Lesbian/Gay Liberation 2003 ''https://fourth.international/en/world-congresses/540/173: | ||
Heterosexism is rooted in the heterosexual, patriarchal family institution characteristic of capitalism. The family is the ‘primary socioeconomic institution for perpetuating the class divisions of society from one generation to the next’, in the words of the 1979 resolution on women’s liberation. In the form it has developed under capitalism, it ‘provides the most inexpensive and ideologically acceptable mechanism for reproducing human labour’ - by using unpaid, largely female labour to care for the young and old as well as working-age adults - and ‘reproduces within itself the hierarchical, authoritarian relationships necessary to the maintenance of class society as a whole’. This family form is particularly oppressive to women and children. | Heterosexism is rooted in the heterosexual, patriarchal family institution characteristic of capitalism. The family is the ‘primary socioeconomic institution for perpetuating the class divisions of society from one generation to the next’, in the words of the 1979 resolution on women’s liberation. In the form it has developed under capitalism, it ‘provides the most inexpensive and ideologically acceptable mechanism for reproducing human labour’ - by using unpaid, largely female labour to care for the young and old as well as working-age adults - and ‘reproduces within itself the hierarchical, authoritarian relationships necessary to the maintenance of class society as a whole’. This family form is particularly oppressive to women and children. | ||
Cinzia Arruzza, Remarks on Gender 2014 | ''Cinzia Arruzza, Remarks on Gender 2014'' | ||
To say that within capitalist society women’s oppression and power relations are a necessary consequence of capitalism, and that these phenomena do not have their own independent and proper logic, is not to support the absurd argument that holds that gender oppression originates with capitalism. What is being defended here is a different argument, tied to the particular characteristics of capitalism. Societies in which capitalism has supplanted the preceding mode of production are characterized by a profound and radical transformation of the family. | To say that within capitalist society women’s oppression and power relations are a necessary consequence of capitalism, and that these phenomena do not have their own independent and proper logic, is not to support the absurd argument that holds that gender oppression originates with capitalism. What is being defended here is a different argument, tied to the particular characteristics of capitalism. Societies in which capitalism has supplanted the preceding mode of production are characterized by a profound and radical transformation of the family. | ||
Simone De Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949) | ''Simone De Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949)'' | ||
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. ... Biology does not determine what makes a woman a woman—a woman learns her role from man and others in society. Woman is not born passive, secondary, and nonessential, but all the forces in the external world have conspired to make her so. | One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. ... Biology does not determine what makes a woman a woman—a woman learns her role from man and others in society. Woman is not born passive, secondary, and nonessential, but all the forces in the external world have conspired to make her so. | ||
Latest revision as of 15:32, 18 November 2022
Outline
- A Marxist-feminist analysis of women’s oppression and exploitation
- Gender, sexuality, intersectionality: the question of oppression in a broader framework
- Women's liberation struggles
Readings:
Excerpts from Friedrich Engels, Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State in Preface to the first edition, 1884
World Congress resolution 1979 “Socialist revolution and the struggle for women's liberation” read Fragments
IC Resolution 2021 New Rise of the Women's Movement
Remarks on Gender (Cinzia Arruzza)
Further readings
What is ecofeminism? Interview with Yayo Herrero
Johanna Brenner “Transnational Feminism and The Struggle for Global Justice”
Quotations:
Fourth International Resolution: On Lesbian/Gay Liberation 2003 https://fourth.international/en/world-congresses/540/173:
Heterosexism is rooted in the heterosexual, patriarchal family institution characteristic of capitalism. The family is the ‘primary socioeconomic institution for perpetuating the class divisions of society from one generation to the next’, in the words of the 1979 resolution on women’s liberation. In the form it has developed under capitalism, it ‘provides the most inexpensive and ideologically acceptable mechanism for reproducing human labour’ - by using unpaid, largely female labour to care for the young and old as well as working-age adults - and ‘reproduces within itself the hierarchical, authoritarian relationships necessary to the maintenance of class society as a whole’. This family form is particularly oppressive to women and children.
Cinzia Arruzza, Remarks on Gender 2014
To say that within capitalist society women’s oppression and power relations are a necessary consequence of capitalism, and that these phenomena do not have their own independent and proper logic, is not to support the absurd argument that holds that gender oppression originates with capitalism. What is being defended here is a different argument, tied to the particular characteristics of capitalism. Societies in which capitalism has supplanted the preceding mode of production are characterized by a profound and radical transformation of the family.
Simone De Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949)
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. ... Biology does not determine what makes a woman a woman—a woman learns her role from man and others in society. Woman is not born passive, secondary, and nonessential, but all the forces in the external world have conspired to make her so.