Archive for the ‘WLM / Feminist History’ Category
Over the past several years, feminist women and men throughout Europe came together to meet as part of the European Feminist Forum. In the European Feminist Forum, they exchanged ideas about issues that face women in Europe today, with the goal of creating a new European feminist agenda. The discussions are now collected in the [...]
Some would say socialist feminism is an artifact of the 1970s. It flowered with the women’s liberation movement, as a theoretical response to what many in the movement saw as the inadequacies of Marxism, liberalism, and radical feminism, but since then it has been defunct, both theoretically and politically. I think this view is mistaken. [...]
Part of a BBC series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. American women push back against sexism, demanding career opportunities and access to birth control. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3:45pm Thursday 11th June 2009 Duration: 15 minutes Available until: 4:02pm Thursday 18th June 2009 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ks225/America_Empire_of_Liberty_Womens_Liberation/
Has the move toward online resources had an effect on source material for the study of black feminist theory? The last forty years have witnessed a critical mass of literary and theoretical writings on the black feminist movement. This article evaluates the coverage of writings by a select group of forty “second wave” (1963–75) and [...]
The White House released a statement by President Obama proclaiming March Women’s History Month. March was selected as a time to honor American women in 1978, when a Women’s History Week was initiated; the time-period was expanded to a month in 1987. Obama’s proclamation follows: With passion and courage, women have taught us that when [...]
Interview with Ruth Anne Koenick director of Rutgers’ Department of Sexual Assault Services and Crime Victim Assistance by Robert Jensen I met Ruth Anne Koenick at a dinner before my talk on the feminist critique of pornography at Rutgers University in 1997. I had been doing public presentations on that issue for several years, but [...]
Men on the “down low” go to extreme lengths to deceive the women they marry about their sexual encounters with other men because of self-hatred and denial, a practice that puts women at risk for HIV, writes Natalie Bell in “The Down Low Effect,” an essay at On The Issues Magazine Online. In addition, women [...]
Article by Gloria Steinem from the April 4, 1969 issue of New York Magazine which they have reprinted this month. Once upon a time—say, ten or even five years ago—a Liberated Woman was somebody who had sex before marriage and a job afterward. Once upon the same time, a Liberated Zone was any foreign place [...]
Posting moved to womensgrid: History of the Women’s Movement in Film at the Goethe-Institut London
Report on discussion hosted by RAG RAG, the Revolutionary Anarchafeminist Group is now in its third year. The collective was set up in order to explore our ideas and produce a magazine, the Rag. Meetings are held weekly on Mondays, but the first Monday of every month is an open meeting, in which non-members are [...]
… Women columnists still make their fortunes by attacking other women – it is, in fact, a time-honoured way to get a book contract or a political appointment. Trashing one’s own gender remains a path to advancement. … It’s an artifice of journalism to choose a given year and pretend that year “changed everything”. We [...]
Ever since feminism’s “Second Wave” emerged in the wake of the anti-Vietnam War movement, women around the world have debated the compatibility of national liberation and women’s liberation. Several questions predominate: Which movement is more likely to liberate women? If both are necessary, how will they fit together? And what about other oppression many women [...]
Her series concludes as Judith Orr looks at the issues that women are fighting over today Women in Britain have made great gains since the days of the Women’s Liberation Movement. We are now a permanent part of the workforce and have a degree of economic independence previously denied to us. Access to legal and [...]
In the second column in her series on women’s liberation, Judith Orr looks at problems that hit the women’s movement By the late 1970s the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) was in decline on both sides of the Atlantic. In Britain there was a growing rift between those who saw the struggle for women’s rights as [...]
In the first part of new series in Socialist Worker Judith Orr looks at the rise in the struggle for women’s liberation It is hard to imagine just how different the world was for women before the 1960s. When my mum got married she had to leave her job in a bank. It was assumed [...]
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Women’s Liberation: Looking Back, Looking Forward
29 December 2010 in Feminism, North America, Opinion Comment, WLM / Feminist History
Extract from a longer opinion piece by Carol Hanisch Feminism (USA) has always been a problematic term in the struggle for women’s liberation, and now with such unlikely public figures as Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga embracing it, it’s become more so. When can or should the feminist label be applied? A look at the [...]