AnarchaFeminism (Anarchist Feminism)
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I start with the basics asking the question
are
women liberated?, after all its nearly the year 2,000, what is
the status of women today? There is no denying things have got
better, but still freedom is a bit of a way off. Why is this? Despite
the fact that the struggle for women's liberation has been going on
for hundreds of years, why are we still not equal. Why some women are
more
equal then others? To me much of the blame has to be laid at the
door of the way society is organised in pursuit of profit. to find
out more, have a look at
an anarchist theory
of women's oppression.
I'm writing from Ireland, which is still a very Catholic country.
Happily the churches power is bit by bit being eroded. We've been
engaged in a very long and complicated struggle for abortion rights.
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Modern
anarchist writings by women
In 1995 a referendum was passed which will allow separated couples
to divorce. I tell you, it's great to win, here's how we reported on
the victory in our paper Workers Solidarity
Divorce victory This
is a pamphlet we distributed at the time, which looks at the
questions is the family natural, it's
called Divorce..undermining the family?
Better dead than wed, say I.
It'd be quiet easy to be gloomy about women's fight, but I like to
remember that hand in hand with oppression has gone struggle against
that oppression. The human spirit isn't easily squashed. Here are a
few articles looking at the experiences of women and men fighting
back against injustice, I hope we can draw inspiration from their
lives and learn from their
experiences.
The first looks at the early
left
& women's liberation.
The second looks at that legend in her own life time, the women
who said 'if I can't dance I don't want to be part of her own
revolution',
Emma
Goldman. Interesting enough Emma Goldman and many of the Spanish
women anarchists, were quite hostile to being described 'feminists'.
To them feminism meant the struggle of middle class women to be equal
with middle class men, while to them women's liberation entailed the
struggle of men and women for a freer society for all. I think this
is a debate that still goes on today, what do you think?
Louise
Michel was a French anarchist women who fought in the Paris
commune and after escaping the death penalty spent the rest of her
life in the anarchist movement.
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This is the text of a talk I gave on women in the Spanish
revolution. It's based on information from an excellent book by
Martha Ackersberg called
Free
Women of Spain. I can't recommend it highly enough, try and get
you hands on it. It's full of interviews with survivors from Spain,
and throws up lots of questions about the nature of anarchism, about
revolution and about women's liberation. Have a look.
Women
in the Spanish Revolution
I don't have all the answers. There isn't any scared text laying
out a five point plan for certain success. I get my ideas from
reading about how other people have and from my own experiences in
campaigns etc. Every days a school day, ideas evolve, change and grow
overtime. The big question is how women can
organise for
liberation?, here's what I think. I hope you find my ideas helpful,
and good luck, here's to a better future for all of us. Here is a
list of anarcho-femminist books and
articles
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anti-prostitution
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