women

Content about women, gender, feminism and women's struggles.

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

African-American washerwomen, 19th-century

Atlanta's washerwomen strike, 1881

A short history of the strike of overwhelmingly African-American women laundresses in Atlanta Georgia. Coming only shortly after the abolition of…

Unemployed domestic workers seek employment, New York 1937

The Bronx slave market, 1950 - Marvel Cooke

Fascinating series of reports and first person accounts of the markets in New York City where unemployed African-American women would be hired by…

Cigar makers on sitdown strike, Detroit 1937

Sit-down strikes by women in 1937 - Ivan Greenberg

A short account of women workers' participation in the sit down strike wave which swept the US in 1937.

Mary Zuk addresses sit down strikers, 1937

1937 cigar industry strike

A history of the sit down strikes by predominantly Polish women workers in Detroit during the great depression: part of a national wave of sit…

Striking cigar workers march, 1937

Immigrant women beat cigar company bosses - Martha Grevatt

A short history of the wave of sitdown strikes by predominantly Polish women cigar makers in Detroit…

Detroit Woolworth's sitdown strikers

The Detroit Woolworth's sitdown strike, 1937 - Marc Norton

A short history of the sit-in strike of women workers at Woolworth's in Detroit, which shook the…

Women in the Montgomery bus Boycott

More than a seat on the bus - Danielle McGuire

Excellent account of the Montgomery bus boycott, a key moment in the civil rights movement. In particular it demolishes the popular myth…

Women members of the IWW lead a march in Manhattan

Letter on the IWW Domestic Workers Union, 1917 - Jane Street

Fascinating letter from the secretary of the domestic workers' section of the Industrial Workers of…

A cat rides a vacuum cleaner robot

Comments on Inventing the Future

Some members of Out of the Woods have written responses to a new book, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick…

Sojourner Truth circa 1870

Truth, Sojourner, c1797-1883 - Mary G. Butler

A short biography of former slave, abolitionist, passionate advocate for the dispossessed and perhaps the most famous African-American woman in…

Reclaim the night march, Brighton 2013

Why reclaim the night?

An introduction to and short history of the Reclaim the Night demonstrations against sexual violence against women. (Trigger warning: contains…

Marie Goldsmith

Goldsmith, Marie: her life and thought

Article about Marie Goldsmith/Isidine/Korn that teases out her influence on Peter Kropotkin's ideas, as well as looking at her scientific career…