2. Women's liberation - Roxanne

1. How and why are women oppressed?

- Marx and Engels on the situation of women and the family - Modes of production and family forms - The sexual division of labor - The over-exploitation of women and children - Three hypotheses on the link between capitalism and the oppression of women - Separation of productive and reproductive work - The heteropatriarchal family - Patriarchal violence

2. What is the history and the current status of women's liberation struggles?

- historical waves - Themes: rights, bodily autonomy, struggle against violence - new rise of the women's movement and feminist strikes - Women, race and class - International sexual and racial division of labor - Marxist feminism and inter-sectionality - Women and anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggles - Women and ecological struggles

3. What strategy for women's liberation?

- Self-organization and the autonomous feminist movement - Transinclusive feminism - Revolutionary feminism and the united front - Socialization of reproductive work

Readings:

Resolution from 11th World Congress (1979): "Socialist revolution and the struggle for women's liberation". Fragments.

IC Resolution 2021 New Rise of the Women's Movement

Extracts: Tithi Bhattacharya, "Introduction: Mapping SRT" in Social Reproduction Theory & "How not to skip class: social reproduction of labor and the global working class".