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A century ago, just as today, working women faced oppression both as women and as workers. On which front would they fight? Were they sisters of the feminists, or citizens, members of the workers' movement? This book is a study of their responses to this dilemma. The French feminist movement claimed to speak for working women as well as for their wealthier sisters. But by the end of the nineteenth century, most politically minded working women rejected feminism, which seemed to them a movement for middle-class women.

Women and socialism --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Women and socialism - France - History --- History. --- Socialism and women --- Socialism

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If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia L. Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in Red Russia, there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though more were just intrigued by the “Soviet experiment.” But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, some by the mundane realities, others by horrifying truths. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia as they sought models for a revolutionary new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Soviet women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare. Even women from Soviet national minorities—many recently unveiled—became public figures, as African American and Jewish women noted. Yet as Mickenberg’s collective biography shows, Russia turned out to be as much a grim commune as a utopia of freedom, replete with economic, social, and sexual inequities. American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages. Mickenberg finally tells these forgotten stories, full of hope and grave disappointments.

Americans --- Women --- Women and socialism --- Feminism --- African American. --- Jewish. --- Russia. --- Soviet Union. --- children. --- feminism. --- humanitarian. --- new women. --- performance. --- History. --- History

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Le capitalisme nuit gravement. Surtout aux femmes. Il les confine à la dépendance envers les hommes et les contraint de soumettre leurs relations intimes à des considérations économiques. Voilà ce que Kristen Ghodsee a conclu des vingt années qu'elle a passées à observer les répercussions de la transition du socialisme d'Etat au capitalisme sur le quotidien des habitantes des pays de l'ancien bloc de l'Est. Sans pour autant réhabiliter les dictatures du communisme réel, elle démontre qu'il y avait beaucoup à sauver des ruines du Mur, et que, contre le mortifère triomphalisme néolibéral d'aujourd'hui, il est encore temps de raviver l'idéal du socialisme. D'une plume libre et généreuse qui va de l'anecdote personnelle à l'analyse de statistiques, en passant par les notes de terrain, l'anthropologue s'adresse d'abord aux jeunes femmes, puis à quiconque souhaite contrecarrer les effets délétères du libre marché. Sous l'égide des grandes figures féministes du socialisme, Alexandra Kollontaï, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, elle aborde tous les aspects de la vie des femmes - le travail, la famille, le sexe et la citoyenneté - et propose des pistes pour qu'elles aient une vie (sexuelle) plus épanouie.

Femmes. --- Sexualité féminine --- Socialisme. --- Capitalisme. --- Libéralisme économique. --- Aspect politique. --- Aspect social. --- Aspect économique. --- Women and socialism --- Women --- Women's rights --- Motherhood --- Employment --- Social conditions. --- Sexual behavior --- Women and socialism - Communist countries. --- Women - Employment - Communist countries. --- Women - Communist countries - Social conditions. --- Women's rights - Communist countries. --- Motherhood - Communist countries. --- Femmes et socialisme --- Femmes --- Sexualité féminine --- Women and socialism. --- Conditions sociales --- Société. --- Sexual behavior.

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L’Amérique du Sud est un des coeurs battants du féminisme contemporain. Des millions de femmes y prennent la rue contre les féminicides, les violences qui frappent les minorités de race et de genre, les lois qui répriment l’avortement et le développement néo-extractiviste. Figure majeure du féminisme latino-américain, Verónica Gago réinscrit ces bouleversements dans l’émergence d’une internationale féministe et propose, avec La puissance féministe, un antidote à tous les discours de culpabilité et de victimisation. En se réappropriant l’arme classique de la grève, en construisant un féminisme populaire, radical et inclusif, les mouvements sud-américains ont initié une véritable révolution. C’est à partir de l’expérience de ces luttes que Gago reconceptualise la question du travail domestique et de la reproduction sociale, expose les limites du populisme de gauche et dialogue avec Spinoza, Marx, Luxemburg ou Federici. Parce qu’il unit la verve politique du manifeste aux ambitions conceptuelles de la théorie, La puissance féministe est un livre majeur pour saisir la portée internationale du féminisme aujourd’hui.

Feminism --- Féminisme --- Feminism. --- Women and socialism. --- Socialist feminism. --- Women's rights. --- Feminism - Argentina --- Féminisme --- Discrimination multiple. --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales). --- Féminisme marxiste --- Aspect politique

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This 1996 book takes a look at the relationship between socialism and feminism in the years before the First World War through a detailed examination of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), Britain's first Marxist party. It reassesses the history of the SDF, exploring for the first time SDF ideas and practice on issues such as marriage and 'free love', women and work, and the suffrage, as well as the attitudes taken to women and their potential as socialists. Dr Hunt shows how the SDF came to officially equivocate on the woman question and how this shaped what it meant to be a socialist woman in the following years. Through this fascinating examination of the links and antagonisms between the feminist and socialist movements, Dr Hunt not only reclaims the history of a forgotten group of socialist women, but also sheds light on the perennial debate about the comparative significance of sex and class in defining political identity.

Women and socialism --- Great Britain --- History --- Women socialists --- Feminism --- Women in politics --- Social Democratic Federation --- Women and socialism - Great Britain - History. --- Women socialists - Great Britain - History. --- Women in politics - Great Britain - History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Women --- History. --- Political activity --- Socialists --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Socialism and women --- Socialism --- SDF (Social Democratic Federation) --- Sotsialdemoḳraṭishe federatsion --- Socialist League (Great Britain : 1885) --- Democratic Federation --- FEMINISME --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- VIE POLITIQUE --- 19E-20E SIECLES --- HISTOIRE