Structure and leadership in the feminist movement
Apr 29 2009 23:11
Hi Everyone!
I'm Farshad, an Iranian dentist and philosophy student.
Recently, with some friends, members of the One Million Signatures Campaign (http://www.campaignforequality.info/english/), I have begun some readings concentrated on the issue of structure and leadership in the feminist movement.
Our basic texts are the tyranny of structurelessness by Jo Freeman and its critiques by Cathy Levine and Carol Ehrlich (I found all these texts in Libcom).
But we need more texts about the topic. Could anyone introduce me more texts (articles, books and etc.) on the issue?
Farshad
Apr 30 2009 12:59
#2
Beyond the Fragments - Feminism and the Makings of Socialism by Sheila Rowbotham (well, mostly by her, it also has contributions from Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright has an interesting critique of authoritarian socialism based on the structures of the women's liberation movement. Good luck, and stay free.
May 2 2009 13:36
#3
Hi niafar, welcome to the boards. One really interesting writer on this subject is Mariarosa Dalla-Costa, she wrote a lot on the Italian feminist/Marxist movements. Two articles on libcom that you might be interested in are The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community and The door to the garden: feminism and Operaismo* - Mariarosa Dalla Costa.
Another one that you might like to have a look at is Sex, Race and Class by Selma James. She worked closely with Dalla Costa on a lot of stuff and talks about how the links between those categories have not been looked at properly by the left/feminist movements.
Hope those make for interesting reading for you! 
* Operaismo, in case you don't know, was a branch of Marxism in Italy which focused on workers' struggles as the driving force for crisis and restructuring within capitalism.
May 2 2009 15:18
#4
I can second that reading of Mariarosa Dalla Costa would be rewarding.
May 3 2009 19:08
#5
Thank you all!
Fortunately, I searched libcom and found all the sources available here and you mentioned, and what's more I translated The door to the garden: feminism and Operaismo
into Persian!
Now, I'm searching for the book by Sheila Rowbotham.
By the way, I look forward to hearing more from you!
Farshad
May 3 2009 22:40
#6
(self-censored)
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