sex and sexuality
Articles about sex, gender and sexuality.
Moral Disorder - Gilles Dauvé
English translation of the preface to the Swedish edition of For A World Without Moral Order.
So far, this text and a couple of others on similar issues1
- 1. “For a World without Moral Order” was first published in French in La Banquise #1, 1983, and then in English (translated by M. William) for the American magazine Anarchy, Fall 1993, and again in pamphlet form in Britain in 1998 (translated by Michael Katims).
Letter of América Scarfó to Emile Armand
Translation of an important document in the history of Argentinian anarchism and of anarchist thinking on amatory ethics. "I desire for all just what I desire for myself: the freedom to act, to love, to think. That is, I desire anarchy for all humanity."
Letter of América Scarfó to Emile Armand
Buenos Aires, 3 December 1928. To comrade E. Armand.
Dear Comrade,
Reproduction; social and sexual
This blog is partially the product of ongoing discussions within the Solidarity Federation over the relationship of 'Anarchy, Sex and Freedom,' but also the reliance among the wider left on dated theories from the 1960s whenever the question of sexuality is raised. The following is a speculative attempt to fill in some of the gaps.
Sex and sexuality - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to further reading on sex, gender and sexuality.
Alexandra Kollontai:
*Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
The Hypocrisy of Puritanism Emma Goldman
*The Sexual Contract – Carole Pateman
Sex-Pol - W. Reich
The Women, Gender and Development Reader - Visvanatham, Duggan, Nisonoff, Wiegersma, Eds.
Language, Gender and Sex in Comparative Perspective – Goodwin/Goodwin
The Stonewall/Bindel affair, and the politics of transsexuality
What would a revolutionary gender politics be? I don't have a clear answer, but certainly the area is one where there aren't many clear arguments of much use. The recent debacle involving Stonewall and Julie Bindel does allow us though to think about where to start.
Julie Bindel’s nomination for the Journalist of the Year prize (which she didn’t win) at the Stonewall awards this month ignited a storm of controversy, with many within the broad 'LGBTQ community’ outraged at the organisation’s recognition of a commentator with a long record of writing which they see as ridden with ‘transphobia’.
Gay liberation - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to further reading on gay liberation, and gay and lesbian oppression.
*Fear of a Queer Planet – Warner
Homosexuality: Power and politics – Weeks
Sex, Politics and Society – Weeks
*The Material Queer – Morton
Foucault and Queer Theory - Tamsin Spargo
The History of Sexuality - Foucault
Sex, Work, and Gilles Dauvé
Though I can’t help feeling somewhat decadent in writing a blog post about a theoretical article written a quarter of a century ago at a time when severe economic crisis is presenting the opportunity to drive home the anti-capitalist perspective as never before, I find myself with free time in which to write some thoughts on a re-reading of Gilles Dauvé’s [url=http://www.libcom.org/library/fo
For A World Without Moral Order - Gilles Dauvé
The present article is an introduction to a critique of social mores, a contribution to the necessary task of revolutionary anthropology.
The communist movement possesses a dimension both of class and of humanity. Although the central role of the proletarian worker is at the foundation of that movement, and although that movement works toward human community, it is neither a form of workerism nor of humanism.
A Dirty Shame, dir. John Waters, 2005. Film review
Of several summer film releases tackling themes of sexual expression and repression, this review judges A Dirty Shame the daftest, as well as the most radical.
Bad Taste and Good Sense by Tom Jennings
9 Songs, dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2005. Film review
Review of 9 Songs, the ‘dirtiest film ever shown in Britain’.
Going Through the Motions
