Women and Socialism

Location: UNT Language Building #316

Join the Denton branch of the International Socialist Organization for our bi-weekly educational meeting. We will be beginning Sharon Smith’s book, Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital (2015). Sharon Smith is a longstanding socialist and feminist activist and one of the leading voices on the US left around women’s oppression and the fight for liberation. She is the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States and Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital.

Sharon Smith will be visiting Denton on the Socialism 2018 Tour in April, with more info to be announced soon here: https://www.facebook.com/events/226427621266803/

About Women and Socialism:

“More than forty years after the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, women remain without equal rights. If anything, each decade that has passed without a fighting women’s movement has seen a rise in blatant sexism and the further erosion of the gains that were won in the 1960s and 1970s. Yet liberal feminist organizations have followed the Democratic Party even as it has continually tacked rightward since the 1980s.

This fully revised edition examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, focusing on the centrality of race and class. It includes chapters on the legacy of Black feminism and other movements of women of color and the importance of the concept of intersectionality. In addition, Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital explores the contributions of socialist feminists and Marxist feminists in further developing a Marxist analysis of women’s oppression amid the stirrings of a new movement today.”

Reading for this week:

Women and Socialism: Race, Class and Capital by Sharon Smith (2015)
Preface
Ch. 1: Women’s Liberation: The Marxist Tradition
Ch. 2: The Origin of Women’s Oppression
Ch. 3: Mainstream Feminism: From Women’s Liberation to “Power Feminism”

You can purchase the e-book/paperback bundle for $8 here: goo.gl/6YFjYa
Don’t have cash for the book? Reach out to us over FB messenger or email and we’ll help you out!

Part 2/3: Chapters 4-6 – April 11, 2018
Part 3/3: Chapters 7-9 – April 25, 2018

Proposed Agenda:
Announcements
Preface & Chapter One
Chapter Two & Chapter Three
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