23/08 Women’s liberation and socialism: Marijke Colle
Readings
- "Our methods of struggle"Media:Our_methods_of_struggle-Reso_IV-1979.odt
(Extract from the 11th World Congress of the 4th International "Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation")
Resolutions from the 13th World Congress
Further reading
F.I. World Congres 1979, Women's Liberation[1]
Outline of the talk
The work of women
- Characteristics of the female work force:
- non paid domestic work
- the wages of women
- specific oppression and double exploitation
- Reconstruction of the worker’s family
- Role of the family and contradiction with the potential independence of women
- Conclusions
- the system makes use of the double working day of women
- man benefit from this situation
- women’s work and gender roles
Origins and growth of the women’s movement in the 19th century
- Flora Tristan (1803-1844)
- The First International
- Louise Michel (1830-1905) and the Paris Commune (1871)
- The Second International
- Specific organisations of women
- Clara Zetkin (1857-1933)
- The Russian Revolution and Alexandra Kollontaï (1872-1952)
Strategic importance of an autonomous women’s movement
- women’s rights in the 19th century
- the new feminism after 1968
- necessity of active participation of women in the struggles
- specific or patriarchal oppression
- autonomous movement and principles of self organisation
- autonomous women’s movement and revolutionary or anticapitalist parties
- autonomous women’s movement and our vision on socialism
Conclusions
- understanding specific oppression
- neoliberal globalisation and women
- gender studies and other oppressions (racism, ethnic minorities,…)
- the question of the LGBT movement
- victory in the struggles and socialist feminism