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* World March of Women, 2011 [http://cadtm.org/Governments-owe-a-debt-toward Governments owe a debt towards women, not towards banks]
* World March of Women, 2011 [http://cadtm.org/Governments-owe-a-debt-toward Governments owe a debt towards women, not towards banks]
==Further reading==
* 13th World Congress F.I., 1991 [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article3984 Positive Action - Women in our parties]

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Outline of the lecture

  • 1. Marx and Engels analysis

- woman's emancipation through participation in productive work
- the capitalist mode of production and the future of the family
- the value of the (male) work force
- the value of the female work force and link with domestic work
- reconstruction of the family in the late 19th Century
- central role of women in reproduction, family life and domestic work
- women workers: double exploitation and specific oppression
- the labour market is 'gendered'

  • 2. Ecofeminism

- role of women in ecological struggles and in peace movements
- gender and nature: essentialist view or material analysis of the reproductive role of women
- the exploitation of women parallels the exploitation of nature
- women's liberation and the fight for ecosocialism

  • 3. The autonomous women's movements

- necessity of an autonomous movement, against any form of 'stageism'
- the Second International,positive and negative aspects
- Kollontaï and women's organisations in and after the Russion Revolution
- second wave feminism : from women only groups to mass campaigns
- what does it mean being a feminist-socialist today?
- strategic necessity of a strong autonomous women's movement

Reading materials

Women in the capitalist economy

Ecofeminism

The autonomous women's movement

Read more particularly the points 2 - 6 about the autonomous women's movement in the chapter 'Our methods of struggle' .

Further reading