women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

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…

Anti-rape protesters brutalised in India

Violence against women in India has reached epidemic proportions. This year there have been 256,000 violent crimes, of which 228,000 have been…

Bus workers on strike, 1918

The London transport women workers' strike, 1918 - Ken Weller

A short history of the partially successful wildcat strike of women workers in London's public…

Women on the market - Luce Irigaray

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

Colonization and housewifization - Maria Mies

Chapter 3 from Patriarchy and capital accumulation on a world scale: women in the international division of labour, 1986.

States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

States of injury: Power and freedom in late modernity

Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in…

Nannie Dryhurst

Dryhurst, Nannie Florence, 1856-1930

A short biography of anarchist Nannie Dryhurst, active in the Freedom group.

Because you should have clocked in at 7…

Because you should have clocked in at 7…

In memory of assaulted and slain Starbucks barista Whitney Heichel. TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE

The problem with hip hop: patriarchy, proletarians and revolutionary culture

An article by Crudo about hip-hop as culture of the working class and some of the problems within…

Unemployed protest in Naples, 2010.

Only two in ten young women are employed in southern Italy

Istat (the Italian Institute of Statistics) has published its Italian labour force survey for the…

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…

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…