Why I joined the Party: An Africana womanist reflection Regina Jennings' personal account on why she joined the Black Panther Party, her personal…
Theorizing patriarchy - Silvia Walby Silvia Walby's 1990 book sets out a dual-systems approach to theorizing capitalism and patriarchy, synthesising Marxist and radical feminist…
The problem with work: feminism, marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries - Kathi Weeks In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that…
A Review of Jared Diamond's 'The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?'
Women's work and capital's use of childhood An account of working at a daycare center. How privatized childcare both changed and preserved gender roles, how childhood makes alienation…
Some reflections on sexual violence and the struggles against it - Kavita Krishnan The following article was written in April 2012, before the recent anti-rape protests of December…
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…
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 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.
States of injury: Power and freedom in late modernity Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in…
