women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

Kortex strikers

The Kortex sweatshop strike, 1981 - Sandra Bloodworth and Tom O'Lincoln

The history of a victorious strike of 300 mostly female immigrant workers in an ultra-exploitative…

Strikers face off with militia in Lawrence

The Lawrence textile strike, 1912 - Sam Lowry

A short history of the strike of 20,000 textile workers, mostly women and girls who included native and immigrant workers, which won big…

The door to the garden: feminism and Operaismo - Mariarosa Dalla Costa

A paper on the history of Italian Marxist feminism given at a seminar on Operaismo ('workerism')…

6. The Intimately Oppressed

Marusya Nikiforova

Nikiforova, Marusya, 1885-1919 - Nick Heath

A short biography of Russian anarchist guerrilla and orator Marussia Nikiforova, who fought in the Russian Civil War following the 1917…

Kate Sharpley

Sharpley, Kate, 1891-1978

Brief biographical information about London resident, anarchist and World War I-widow, Kate Sharpley who once attacked Queen Mary.

Portrait of Clara Thalmann from a photo taken in 1953.

Thalmann, Clara, 1910-1987

A biography of Swiss anarchist Clara Thalmann, who travelled to Spain to fight in the Durruti Column in the Civil War.

Ito Noe

Noe, Ito, 1895-1923

A short biography of Ito Noe, a courageous Japanese woman who broke with her social conditioning and became a champion of both women’s liberation…

Lucy Parsons

Parsons, Lucy, 1853-1942

A biography of anarchist labour organiser and wife of Haymarket Martyr Albert Parsons, Lucy Parsons.

Marriage and love - Emma Goldman

Anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman on relationships, love and marriage.

Women's Suffrage

The Traffic in Women