(This handout is part of Activity 6: Feminist/ism through time: Poster making on the waves and beyond.)
Some would argue that one of the greatest challenges to understanding feminism may be the fact that the ideology and philosophy informing it have shifted over time. Others will argue that we cannot speak of feminism but should instead speak of feminisms. While others will have us understand feminism through typologies of political conceptions.
(This handout is part of Activity 9: The feminist challenge: how feminism expands ideas of freedom.)
Over the years, the feminist tradition has engaged in a sustained conversation with many of the ideas that are associated with what we call dominant conceptions of freedom. This conversation takes place in the form of a dialogue and sometimes it becomes similar to a community hall meeting, with many different voices in the room.
(This reading is part of Activity 9: The feminist challenge: how feminism expands ideas of freedom.)
This ground-breaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship between economic exploitation and social oppression.
(This reading is part of Activity 9: The feminist challenge: how feminism expands ideas of freedom.)
By Frances Rogan and Shelley Budgeon, 9 August 20181
The slogan, ‘the personal is political’, has its origins in a paper of the same title authored by Carol Hanisch. It was published in 1970 as part of a collection of essays called Notes from the Second Year: Women’s Liberation. Hanisch was motivated to write the paper in defence of Women’s Liberation Movement groups who were emerging out of existing radical movements such as the Civil Rights movement, the Anti-Vietnam War movement, and Old and New Left groups.
(This reading is part of Activity 9: The feminist challenge: how feminism expands ideas of freedom.)
Source: https://monthlyreview.org/2019/01/01/black-feminism-and-the-combahee-river-collective/
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Jan 01, 2019)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2016) and the editor of How We Get Free—Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Haymarket Books, 2017). The Combahee River Collective, a trailblazing group of radical Black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and ’70s.