New questions in
The left has not paid sufficient attention to the debate in the women's movement around feminism...
pornography.
Finding our way between the need to defend
For this special dossier for International women's right to live without feeling the victim of
Women's Day we present a series of aggression from sexually explicit and violent contributions that deal with questions which, images and defending the right to free speech has although widely discussed in the women's given rise to wide-ranging debate.
movement are less so in the Marxist
The questions under discussion range from the movement.
definition of pornography itself, whether or not
Starting from its analysis of the society as we can make a distinction between it and the relationship between classes, notably the
"erotica" to strategies for combating the relations of exploitation in the productive degradation of women.
process, traditional Marxism includes women
We present three points of view drawn from from the point of view of their role in the material previously published in the US magazine productive process and their role in the family
Against the Current.
as the unit of reproduction of the labour force.
The women's movement has extended its study of women's social and political situation
Sex...
to deal with aspects that do not enter so readily in this framework.
The question of sexuality has figured in the
Women thus have sought, seek and will thinking of a number of eminent socialist thinkers seek to define their identity as women, in a in the past, such as Alexandra Kollontai and broader way than that of the "woman
Wilhem Reich.
worker"
, to which they feel, with greater or
Today, however, the demand for "the right to lesser reason, traditional Marxism confines self-defined" is too often today added to the them.
"shopping list" of demands without a more
Next month, Lidia Cirillo will present the developed understanding of the real issues.
discussion on women's identity as a social subject as it has been posed in Italy and urges
Marxism to respond to the challenge to deal with this debate in these terms.
In the meantime, we present the following these are questions which, contributions - unfortunately, we are not used discussing, and we will return to them in later issues of
International Viewpoint.
compiled and introduced i by Penny Duggan !
Solidarity...
Violence...
In our final article in this issue Terry Conway
Since the 1970s, practical and psychological aid to women victims of domestic and sexual violence from Britain describes the way in which women, as the wives, mothers and women of the has been a major activity of women's and feminist communities, in a number of important industrial associations. Estela Ratamoso tells us about the activity of the Luna Nueva association in disputes in Britain, have created a new identity and role for themselves as a central force within
Montevideo, Uruguay, and the ways it helps the solidarity movement.
women.
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new questions in feminism