women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

Mammoth hunting: big-game abundance

Primitive communism, barbarism and the origins of class society - Lionel Sims

Lionel Sims on primitive communism, in particular examining the claims of Frederick Engels.

Communization and the abolition of gender

Communization and the abolition of gender

"Present day civilization makes it plain that it will only permit sexual relationships on the basis of a solitary, indissoluble bond between one…

Women council workers in Bury win equal pay legal battle

Last week council workers in Bury won a legal battle over discriminatory bonuses. Although dubbed…

Organizing women: first steps - Martha A. Ackelsberg

An excerpt from Martha A. Ackelsberg's Free Women of Spain: anarchism and the struggle for the emancipation of women about women's struggle for…

The Boston Massacre during the American Revolution

Food rioters and the American Revolution - Barbara Clark Smith

On more than thirty occasions between 1776 and 1779, American men and women gathered in crowds to…

Women' s March to Versailles during the French Revolution

A political revolution for women? The case of Paris - Darline Gay Levy and Harriet B. Applewhite

The women's march to Versailles capped months of women's political involvement…

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Wages against housework - Silvia Federici

Italian autonomist Marxist Silvia Federici on wages and housework.

An unlikely mobilization: The occupation of Saint-Nizier church by the prostitutes of Lyon

A journal article by Lilian Mathieu which examines the occupation of Saint-Nizier…

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'Treat' domestic violence with homeopathy!

Twitter today pointed out this horrific, unbelievably offensive article, titled 'Homeopathy for Domestic Violence and Abuse'. Hopefully, the…

Armed with a yellow mimosa: Women’s defence and assistance groups in Italy, 1943–45

A journal article by Jomarie Alano on the history of the Gddd in the Italian Resistance.

Anti-fascist Italian women's group, Gddd, written out of history - almost

The Gddd were an organization of women in Italy from 1943-45. They were the largest group of active…

Emma Goldman's mugshot from an arrest in 1901

Living my life - Emma Goldman

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in…