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ways of socialist thinking. In speaking of the new alliance to be forged between ecology, feminism and peace Williams rebuts the charge that these are 'emotional' movements, by conceding the case but arguing that…very feeble substitute. In any case the difficulties of forging a new form of socialism around ecology, feminism and peace are more intractable than Williams imagines. In the case of feminism, this is uncomfortably…much more difficult it will be to achieve a new form of alliance between socialism and feminism — let alone between men and women who aspire to be socialist and feminist — than is evoked by Raymond
Marxism Today July 1984
Males. Morals and Majorities - interview with Gloria Steinam
changeful as they are in Europe. In the late 60s when I first became aware of feminism, and light bulbs began to go off in my head, by and large women who had described themselves…Did your adoption of feminism prompt you to feel that feminism was very raw and was going to have to develop for itself…women. It has been a terrible struggle of the women of the Left to produce their own feminism. Yes. Nonetheless there's something that disturbs me very much and I don't know what
Marxism Today June 1984
SUPERGIRL
SUPERGIRL Tessa Perkins That the mass media has found it necessary and profitable to take account of feminism has been evident for several years now. Although this can be seen in a wide variety…children; or do they somehow manage to reinforce the status quo by robbing feminism of its guts. It is important to recognise that even though all the examples listed above are…almost because although as far as the film's narrative is concerned the suppression of feminism is total, the film nonetheless offers women a pleasure which comes close to being subversive. In order
Marxism Today October 1984
Women: not what they bargained for
little to the political dark ages in which we now find ourselves. For too long feminism has found itself on the margins of socialist politics, critical, powerless and excluded, claiming special needs, treated…special problem. Feminism does have something to say, however, which strikes deep at the heart of what class struggle is about. This article is concerned with our recent political history, and future political strategy…Feminist Economics, Feminist Review No 6, 1980. J Heidi Hartmann, 'The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism, in Capital and Class No. 81979. "Hilary Land, 'The Mantle of Manhood', New Statesman, 18/25 December, 1981. * Catherine
Marxism Today March 1982
LIFE
created in 1970, were reformist and legalist. I never had any desire to join them. The new feminism is, on the contrary, radical. It has adopted the slogans of 1968: — change everyday life…inferior that those who struggle for equality are rare. There are many misunderstandings about the term feminism. I ’d like you to give me your definition. At the end of the Second Sex I said…position o f women, but that radical in the years to come. It interests me a feminism, which questions society and the existing relationships between men lot. But I think the analyses which make
7 Days Wednesday March 8, 1972 No 19
Sen for Americans?
book's weakness; the analysis is burdened with the cumbersome and unwieldy analytic preconceptions of an unreconstructed feminism, and this sometimes blunts some of its sharper insights and political instincts. Having said that, it should…that Faludi manages to convey some of the passion and energy that fuelled the earlier ambitions of feminism; she thus provides a reminder that, crude as the truths expressed by social movements are, they have…sense this composite project succeeds - certainly it cannot simply be dismissed on the grounds of its unreconstructed feminism, or inattention to historical resonance. But her project is flawed because not only does she bury class
Soundings soundings issue 14 Spring 2000
What is 'transversal politics'?
2. Donna Haraway, 'Situated knowledge: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective', Feminist .Studies 14(3), 1988. 3. See Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchies…Jan Pettman, Living in the margins, racism, sexism and feminism in Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992, p157. 5. Alison Assiter, Enlightened Women: Modernist Feminism in a Postmodern…schematic. I have elaborated more on the concept in my article 'Women, ethnicity and empowerment, in Feminism and Psychology, special issue, Shifting identities, shifting racisms, edited by K. Bhavnani and A Phoenix
Soundings soundings issue 12 summer 1999
Jonathan Rutherford
significant political and cultural gap between generations. The politics of Marxism Today, the legacies of libertarian socialism, feminism and Gramsci appear to have made little impact on today's young. Young people are not using…succeed at school, in Education Today and Tomorrow, Vol 49 Nol Spring 1997, and in Black British Feminism, Heidi Safia Mirza (ed), Routledge, London 1997. 117…uncertainties of the 1990s. Young behaviour' women appear to have a greater social confidence. The legacy of feminism has been a transformation in their attitudes and aspirations. In contrast to young women's ambition
Soundings soundings issue 6 Summer 1997
Lay Down Your Weary Tune; The Left And The Cultural Politics Of Aids
prominent in AIDS activism like Cindy Patton, Tony Whitehead, and Jonathan Grimshaw jostle with names prominent in feminism and cultural theory - Lynne Segal, Judith Williamson, and Jeffrey Weeks among others. The effect of this…construct is a cultural politics of AIDS rooted in community activism, theoretically informed by cultural theory and feminism, with ambitions to recruit in and resonate with common sense. In other words, a cultural politics aiming…cultural politics of AIDS stands at the intersection of many different histories - of medicine, gay liberation, feminism, the pharmaceutical industry, the press, the criminalization of injecting drug use, racism
New Formations Number 10 Spring 1990
Aesthetic Autonomy And The Crisis Of Theory: Greenberg, Adorno, And The Problem Of Postmodernism In The Visual Arts
semiology of painting', Enclitic, III, 1 (Spring 1979). 22 Roszika Parker and Griselda Pollock (eds), Framing Feminism: Art and the Women's Movement 1970-1985 (London: Pandora Press, 1987); and, for the American scene, Lucy…Lippard, From the Centre: Feminist essays on women's art (New York: Dutton, 1976). Lippard argues that 'Feminism's greatest contribution to the future vitality of art has probably been precisely its lack of contribution…Modernism' ('Sweeping exchanges: the contribution of feminism to the art of the seventies', Art Journal, 41, 1/2 (1980), 362 - quoted by Griselda Pollock, 'Feminism and modernism', in Parker and Pollock, op. cit., 102). Pollock herself
New Formations Number 9 Winter 1989
Reviews
book's weakness; the analysis is burdened with the cumbersome and unwieldy analytic preconceptions of an unreconstructed feminism, and this sometimes blunts some of its sharper insights and political instincts. Having said that, it should…that Faludi manages to convey some of the passion and energy that fuelled the earlier ambitions of feminism; she thus provides a reminder that, crude as the truths expressed by social movements are, they have…sense this composite project succeeds - certainly it cannot simply be dismissed on the grounds of its unreconstructed feminism, or inattention to historical resonance. But her project is flawed because not only does she bury class
Soundings Issue 14, Spring 2000
What is 'Transversal Politics?
2. Donna Haraway, 'Situated knowledge: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective', Feminist .Studies 14(3), 1988. 3. See Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchies…Jan Pettman, Living in the margins, racism, sexism and feminism in Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992, p157. 5. Alison Assiter, Enlightened Women: Modernist Feminism in a Postmodern…schematic. I have elaborated more on the concept in my article 'Women, ethnicity and empowerment, in Feminism and Psychology, special issue, Shifting identities, shifting racisms, edited by K. Bhavnani and A Phoenix
Soundings Issue 12, Summer 1999
'Young Britain': Introduction
significant political and cultural gap between generations. The politics of Marxism Today, the legacies of libertarian socialism, feminism and Gramsci appear to have made little impact on today's young. Young people are not using…succeed at school, in Education Today and Tomorrow, Vol 49 Nol Spring 1997, and in Black British Feminism, Heidi Safia Mirza (ed), Routledge, London 1997. 117…uncertainties of the 1990s. Young behaviour' women appear to have a greater social confidence. The legacy of feminism has been a transformation in their attitudes and aspirations. In contrast to young women's ambition
Soundings Issue 6, Summer 1997
Men Against Men Again
multiplicities of masculinities rather than emphasising the fixed nature of manhood as Stoltenberg does. This realisation follows feminism's insistence that there are now a variety of feminisms. But Stoltenberg and his colleagues still respond…imaginary feminism that is united in its demands. It is a frighteningly prescriptive belief-system with religious undertones. Andrea Dworkin is its high priestess and the language is one of conversion. Stoltenberg has seen through…with age and class. Some men may perceive themselves as a vanguard out there fighting for feminism, but if other men perceive them as a bunch of puritanical whingers it's hardly going to have
Marxism Today October 1990
The Morals Dilemma
assimilate (if not before time) the elements of new codes of interpersonal behaviour that grew out of feminism and anti-racism, and have developed institutional forms (of which the appointment of equal opportunity officers…socialist code of personal behaviour could avoid drawing much of its general and specific content from feminism. It should also be remembered that feminism's challenge to coercive and violent personal behaviour has been most…acute in what one could call enemy territory: it is in the home itself that feminism has fought hardest and it could be argued had its most intense if not its most extensive purchase
Marxism Today October 1987
BURNING QUESTIONS The novel you always wanted ANGELA COYLE
Zane, a rebel and a feminist, but it is also about us too, about our lives, our feminism, and our attempts to live both as truly as we can. Famous revolutionary women, Kollantai, Luxemburg…Goldman have publicly and successfully lived their feminism in ways that seem impossible for us. What this novel importantly tells us is that if we can only do the best we can, in the circumstances…themselves just as we do. What we have is the women’s movement and a kind of feminism that has created spaces to help us be what we want to be, in a way that
Red Rag Volume 14
WOMEN AND THE NATIONAL FRONT Reclaiming history CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL STUDIES, WOMEN & FASCISM STUDY GROUP
woman’s place’ in the home and with children as natural and dictated by her biology, feminism sees it as political. The feelings and problems of everyday life are capable of being changed: motherhood…barriers to a serious recognition by the Left of the necessary centrality of feminism in the anti-fascist struggle is the traditional Marxist view that fascism is simply the outcome of a mechanically conceived clash…pamphlet provides, our own work would have remained largely speculative. In the sphere of practical politics, feminism has yet to make a real impact on the anti-fascist movement, apart from Women Against Racism
Red Rag Volume 14
UNTITLED ‘78 The Hayward Women’s Show
precision with which it exposes its creator is the source of its magic. ‘Quality’, ‘equality’ but not feminism were the raison d’etre for this show. The catalogue explains that in selec ting a show…this is a projection of her own insecurities as is the tentative and obscured nature of her feminism. Sue Beere makes distorted picture frames, which take up floor space as well as wall space. This…allow their experience as women to intrude into their artistic consciousness. They deny interest or connection to feminism, one exhibitor was heard to say it would be detrimental to her career. And yet their opportunity
Red Rag Volume 14
Who are we? � class and the women�s movement
WOMEN’S MOVEMENT This article asks a number of questions about the relation ship of feminism to class in Britain today. The comments which I have offered on these questions are ideas, not answers…conscious, organised feminist movement — the one which goes to conferences, produces journals, sets up local groups. Clearly, feminism in Britain has a much broader base than this movement. Equal pay strikes, the abortion, campaign, local…careful analysis of the changes which have been occurring in the relationship of class and feminism
Red Rag Volume 11
Editorial cover
like to try and explain what we mean by this. We are feminist first and foremost because feminism is the political movement which emerges as women’s response to their own oppression. The material base…real power and privilege, that is, their economic, social, cultural, and psychological dominance. Feminism has produced much analysis, in particular of women’s subjective experience of their oppression, its biological…consider all aspects of the women’s movement. We are committed to a critical exploration of radical feminism and Marxist feminism to encourage ongoing discussion about the theory and practice of women’s liberation
Red Rag Volume 4
Kinnock's Crusaders
that with a few exceptions, although they've lived their adult lives in the era of feminism - their time, is after all, the time of the women's movement - they seem oddly exiled from…Party of the 80s is the insurgence of the women who, because they have the culture of feminism as a reference point outside the party, challenge the ritualised parameters of Labourism like others…Hattersley's economic committee meetings seem to be boys-only affairs. The only room for manoeuvre for feminism in the shadow cabinet is on poverty and social security, not least because Meacher is drawing
Marxism Today October 1985
LABOURING WOMEN - interview with Frances Morrell
Feminism is beginning to make its mark in the Labour Party…struggles of women and blacks? I wouldn't call it the Hobsbawm thesis. My position comes from feminism: that the problem that we've got, as a labour movement, is that women were historically defeated…anti-capitalist or class analysis of society. To return to the Women's Action Committee. Modem feminism very slowly and politely impacted on the Left, and barely impacted on the Right at all. The Labour
Marxism Today April 1985
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Marxism Today July 1984
Crossed Lines: Communists in Search of an Identity
believe the party has followed a revisionist course since 1956, if not before. They deride 'bourgeois feminism' and other social movements; want to abandon the CP's electoral work in order to facilitate entering…where a creative Marxism must face up to the challenge of new movements and issues such as feminism, ecology and deindustrialisation. It is true to say that the party has a creditable record here…considerable — and painful — deliberations on socialist democracy; the contribution of Marxism Today; and the engagement with feminism represent four notable achievements. However, enormous scope for development exists. Marxism Today suggests that the party
Marxism Today April 1984
Rump or Rebirth?
Up-dated Popular Front The Communist Party was not the subject Feminism of 'Labour's Lost Millions', though its I need say little about contributors who problems are inseparable from…politics Jan-Feb 1984). As for the question of over five decades' (Norah Carlin and Ian feminism, what was said on the subject in Birchall, 'Kinnock's Favourite Marxist: 'Labour's Lost Millions' can only…like to important article to which Coote rightly have them', made sense then and still draws attention. (Feminism is Dead? Long makes sense. Live Feminism' Marxism Today Oct 1983). If we thought it could
Marxism Today March 1984