women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

Sabotage in The Office

Sabotage in the American workplace: anecdotes of dissatisfaction, mischief and revenge

A truly fantastic study of everyday employee resistance at work. First person accounts of sabotage,…

Squat houses, Broughton Road, Hackney, 1983

Sisterhood and Squatting in the 1970s: Feminism, Housing and Urban Change in Hackney

A detailed look at squatting in 1970s Hackney, East London. Using oral history to recall how women…

Salvadora Carmen Medina Onrubia

Medina Onrubia de Botana, Salvadora Carmen, 1894-1972

A short biography of Argentinian feminist anarchist poet and writer Salvadora Carmen Medina Onrubia…

Nigel Buildings tenements rent strike 1930s Peckham, London

A successful rent strike in 1930s Peckham

The story of a successful rent strike in Peckham, south east London, during the 1930s.

Meditation on domestic violence intervention: a personal narrative

A deeply personal account of experiencing and confronting abuse within a family, by Sara Rahnoma-Galindo. Trigger warning for domestic and sexual violence.

The logic of gender: on the separation of spheres and the process of abjection

Marxist-feminists have employed a number of binary oppositions: productive/reproductive, paid/unpaid and public/private. We interrogate these categories and propose new ones. Starting from the specificities of the production and reproduction of labour-power, we define gender as the anchoring of individuals into two separate spheres of social reproduction. We trace the development of these spheres through the history…

Porto Alegre modern school, 1917

Latin American anarchist women

Pamphlet about the lives of some little-known Latin American anarchist women, by Edgar Rodriguez.

Elena Quinteros

Elena Quinteros, 1945-1976

A short biography of Uruguayan anarchist teacher Elena Quinteros, who was disappeared by the US-backed military dictatorship, written by Edgar…

Anna Yakimova

Yakimova, Anna, 1856-1942

A short biography of Russian revolutionary Anna Yakimova, a.k.a. Anna Vasilevna Yakimova-Dikovsky.

A striker wounded in the women's day massacre

The women's day massacre, 1937

A short account of the 19 June killing of 16 people and wounding of 283 by police during a demonstration of women and children in support of a…

L’auto-organisation des femmes - Bernard Lyon

dimanche, 25 mai 2008

Image credit @sistersuncut, flares on the roof of Holloway Prison

Sisters Uncut Occupy London’s Holloway Prison

Sisters Uncut, a UK-based feminist group, held a week-long occupation of north London’s Holloway Prison in late May in response to conservative…