23/08 Women’s liberation and socialism: Marijke Colle
Women's oppression in globalization, March 2004[1]
Further readings:
F.I. World Congres 1979, Women's Liberation[2]
Outline of the talk
The work of women
- Characteristics of the female work force:
- non paid domestic work
- the wages of women
- specific oppression and double exploitation
- Reconstruction of the worker’s family
- Role of the family and contradiction with the potential independence of women
- Conclusions : - the system makes use of the double working day of women
- man benefit from this situation
- women’s work and gender roles
Origins and growth of the women’s movement in the 19th century
- Flora Tristan (1803-1844)
- The First International
- Louise Michel (1830-1905) and the Paris Commune (1871)
- The Second International
- Specific organisations of women
- Clara Zetkin (1857-1933)
- The Russian Revolution and Alexandra Kollontaï (1872-1952)
Strategic importance of an autonomous women’s movement
- women’s rights in the 19th century
- the new feminism after 1968
- necessity of active participation of women in the struggles
- specific or patriarchal oppression
- autonomous movement and principles of self organisation
- autonomous women’s movement and revolutionary or anticapitalist parties
- autonomous women’s movement and our vision on socialism
Conclusions
- understanding specific oppression
- neoliberal globalisation and women
- gender studies and other oppressions (racism, ethnic minorities,…)
- the question of the LGBT movement
- victory in the struggles and socialist feminism