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International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
2011-03-07
March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.

Sources Select Resources

Aletta Institute for Women's History
Organization
The Aletta Institute holds books, magazines, archives, works of music, photographs, posters, diaries, letters, all sorts of household and personal objects relevant to women and women’s lives. Home of ...
Am I a bad feminist?
Atwood, Margaret
Article
2018
Globe & Mail
My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do...
Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus
Website
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
The Emperor's New Penis
The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women
Keith, Lierre; Jensen, Derrick
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Right now the gender fundamentalists are doing their best to shut down dialogue. They've damaged books — books that don’t even mention their concern — pressured bookstores, and silenced speakers sched...
European Labour History Network - Working Group on Feminist Labour History
Article
2013
Social History Portal
The founding meeting of the ELHN took place at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) on 12 October 2013. The forty scholars who gathered in Amsterdam, belonging to research institutions...
Fallen Pan, Furious Women, and the Failure of Soulless Feminism
Domenico, Kim C.
Article
2018
CounterPunch
The excited triumphal coverage of the Me Too Movement conveys the fatal devaluing of imagination - and the banning of thoughtful discourse as well as passionate enthusiasm - that defines and shackle...
Feminism
Connexipedia Article
Article
Used to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing more rights and legal protection for women.
Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview
Against The Current vol. 163
Brenner, Johanna
Article
2013
Against The Current
Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
Feminist Perspectives on Trans issues
Article
2009
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The relationship between feminism and transgender theory and politics is surprisingly fraught. The goal in this entry is to outline some of the key philosophical issues at the intersections, and this ...
Friedan, Betty
Connexipedia Article
Article
American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
Gaza's women of steel
Gadzo, Mersiha
Article
2017
Al Jazeera
Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.
How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it
Fraser, Nancy
Article
2013
The Guardian
As a feminist, I've always assumed that by fighting to emancipate women I was building a better world – more egalitarian, just and free. But lately I've begun to worry that ideals pioneered by feminis...
How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
Mendes, Kaitlynn
Article
2015
AlterNet
It is amidst this wider rape culture, and the ways feminists are fighting back, that SlutWalk not only emerged, but exploded as a global grassroots movement. What is significant about SlutWalk is not ...
Intelligent Compassion
Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Confortini, Catia Cecilia
Book
2012
Oxford University Press
The Kurdish struggle - An interview with Dilar Dirik
Souvli, George
Article
2017
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Dilar Dirik interviewed by George Souvlis.
The leaders of the American Womens March have spoken: Jews are unwelcome on the feminist left
Teitel, Emma
Article
2018
Toronto Star
Columnist Emma Teitel draws attention to the problematic relationship between US Women's March organizers and antisemetic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Male
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
Domenico, Kim C.
Article
2018
CounterPunch
With Me Too’s focus where it is, on man’s injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over ti...
On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
Tutchell, Eva; Edmonds, John
Article
2018
Red Pepper
The authors tell the story of the Midsummer's day 1908 'Votes for women' Suffragist rally and the March 1971 Women's Liberation Movement Demonstration in Hyde ParK, London.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. I...
Pornography and the Sex Censors
A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
Crossen, Cathy
Article
1996
Against the Current
The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagoni...
Post-war Left Feminism - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Lieberman, Robbie
Article
2013
Against The Current
A review of 'Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture' by Kathlene McDonald.
The Professor of Parody
Nussbaum, Martha
Article
2000
It is difficult to come to grips with Judith Butler’s ideas because it is difficult to figure out what they are.
Reading Red Women Writers
Christopher, Renny
Article
1996
Against the Current
Coiner makes a cogent case for class studies, decrying the way in which discussions of "race, class and gender" usually only actually deal with race and gender.
Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
Milkman, Ruth
Unclassified
2015
Jacobin
Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
Rise of the naked female warriors
Cochrane, Kira
Article
2013
Guardian Weekly
Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
The Torturer as Feminist: From Abu Ghraib to Zero Dark Thirty
Cornell, Matt
Article
2013
How “feminism” is used in service of the American empire.
Why Do Establishment Feminists Hate Sex Workers?
Rosen, David
Article
2018
CounterPunch
On March 21st, 2018, U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats joined together to overwhelmingly pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA); the House had earlier passed the Allow States and Victi...
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2008
Radical Digressions
History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'fem...
Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
Podur, Justin; Cummings, Joan Joy Grant
Article
2017
Socialist Project
Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings, a women's right activist, regarding the severity of sexual violence towards women and girls in Jamaica.

Sources Bookshelf

Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Hughes, Robert
Book
1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasan...
The First Stone: Homosexuality and the United Church
Riordon, Michael
Book
1990
A dramatic account of the tumultuous decade-long struggle in the United Church of Canada to balance faith, sexuality and human rights. Drawing on the church's history, and more than one hundred person...
Media Think
Winter, James
Book
2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diver...
The Morning After
Sex, Fear, and Feminism
Roiphe, Katie
Book
1993
When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled su...

Media

Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal
A journal devoted to current scholarship and approaches to the discipline of Women's and Gender Studies.
Canadian Journal of History
All fields of history except the history of Canada. Each issue features articles and reviews by leading scholars about themes and controversies in historical writing.
Canadian Woman Studies
A feminist quarterly that makes current writing and research on a variety of feminist topics accessible to the largest possible community of women.
Contemporary Verse 2
Feminist poetry, short fiction, reviews and artwork.
Herizons
Women's news and feminist views.
Resources for Feminist Research
Articles, reviews, abstracts of published and unpublished works, works-in-progress reports and bibliographies.
Room of One's Own
Canadian feminist publication with poetry, fiction, art, and reviews.
VOX Feminarum: The Canadian Journal of Feminist Spirituality
Multi-disciplinary, multi-faith forum for Canadian women to explore the relationships between faith traditions, feminism, spirituality and personal experience.


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