To build a movement that addresses the deep, structural forms of oppression faced by women, it is essential to build a feminism that is anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and on the side of all oppressed people.
To understand the political relationship between individual violation and collective response, we need to explore the theoretical pathways that connect particular harms to universal conditions.
"The best way I — and by extension, hopefully more of us — can learn anything from what happened to me, what has been happening to me, what has been happening to all of us, is to look this ambiguity right in the face."
Sarah Jaffe speaks with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya about the International Women's Strike.
Inspired by the gathering momentum of the #MeToo movement, we present a reading list pointing to the links between gender, power, sexuality, and capitalist domination.
"Women have always, it turns out, told about sexual violence, fought it, struggled to write it and say it. Women have fought to tell it to themselves" – Jessie Kindig introduces Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo
Silvia Federici on the links between changes in the global economy and increasing violence against women.Â
Tithi Bhattacharya offers an introduction to the methods, insights, and strategic implications of Social Reproduction Theory.Â
Kathi Weeks draws on 1970s feminist critiques of romance to investigate the contemporary management discourses of love and happiness at work.Â
Joyce Salisbury examines attitudes toward chastity, sexuality, and gender held by a group of Early Christian women ascetics.Â
Fredric Jameson on Ursula K. Le Guin's method of radical abstraction and simplification.
Françoise Vergès responds to the "appeal of the 100" published in Le Monde.