Witches, midwives, and nurses: A history of women healers - Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English An interesting analysis of women's undervalued and often repressed role in health…
Women on the market - Luce Irigaray Luce Irigaray applies Marx's analysis of the commodity to the status of women - objects circulated by men to reproduce a male-dominated society.
Colonization and housewifization - Maria Mies Chapter 3 from Patriarchy and capital accumulation on a world scale: women in the international division of labour, 1986.
Some thoughts on Anarcha-Feminism - Chepina Hukku Chepina Hukku discuss current strands of feminist anti-capitalism in the light of the anarch-fem intervention at the Anarchist movement conference (2009). Originally published in September 2009.
States of injury: Power and freedom in late modernity Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in…
Happy hookers: sex workers and their would-be saviors Melissa Gira Grant on the framework in which sex work is discussed.
Paedophilia and rape culture A blog looking at the prevalence of child abuse in our society and how it relates to rape culture. TRIGGER WARNING FOR CHILD ABUSE AND SEXUAL…
Lies - a journal of materialist feminism ...[The] more we read and wrote together, the more we desired a means to devise a theory and politics that is inchoate but at least our own…
Mothers' Strike (2010) “Mothers’ Strike” is a documentary that portrays the living conditions of the striking women in Walbrzych, Poland in 2010, their struggle against…
The enemy of my enemy - notes on not having really shit politics For what seems like forever, the Julian Assange saga has been everywhere. On TV, in the papers, on…
Influences upon Islamic conceptions of masculinities A discussion I wrote for uni focussing on Islam and masculinity. Apologies for the format, i have tried everything to get it sorted but its not playing ball...
Qur'an, patriarchy, and Islamic feminism An old university essay by 'xslavearcx' on the question of different readings of the Qur'an in regards to gender issues.
