Key Works

Women's liberation and feminism

Readings for the sessions on women's liberation and feminism: the resolutions of the 11th, 13th and 16th World Congresses, Engels, Kollontai, Cinzia Arruzza, Johanna Brenner, Tithi Bhattacharya, Adrienne Rich and the World March of Women.

42 works, 9 of them on this site. Fourth International documents and the classics first, then by the number of teaching materials that cite them.

1. Fourth International document Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women's LiberationFourth International (11th World Congress) · 1979 · 1979 World Congress of the Fourth International: Major Resolutions and Reports · on this site · cited in 36 teaching materialsAlso: 4edu · archive.4edu
2. Fourth International document Dynamics of mass movements and feminist currents (Latin America)Fourth International (13th World Congress) · 1991 · 13th World Congress · on this site · cited in 19 teaching materialsAlso: archive.4edu · International Viewpoint
3. Fourth International document Positive action - women in our parties (Resolution on positive action)Fourth International (13th World Congress) · 1991 · 13th World Congress · on this site · cited in 17 teaching materialsAlso: archive.4edu · International Viewpoint · ESSF
4. Origins of the Family, Private Property and the StateFriedrich Engels · 1884 · Penguin, London · external link · cited in 15 teaching materialsAlso: marxists.org
5. Fourth International document Changing forms of the struggle for women's liberation (Western Europe/North America)Fourth International (13th World Congress) · 1991 · 13th World Congress · on this site · cited in 11 teaching materialsAlso: archive.4edu · International Viewpoint
6. Fourth International document The new rise of the women's movementFourth International (International Committee) · 2021 · Fourth International · on this site · cited in 9 teaching materialsAlso: International Viewpoint
7. Fourth International document Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women's Liberation, I: The Character of Women's OppressionFourth International (11th World Congress) · 1979 · International Viewpoint · on this site · cited in 5 teaching materialsAlso: International Viewpoint
8. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: Preface to the first editionFriedrich Engels · 1884 · external link · cited in 5 teaching materials
9. Fourth International document Our methods of struggle: on the autonomous women's movementFourth International (11th World Congress) · 1979 · 11th World Congress · on this site · cited in 4 teaching materialsAlso: 4edu
10. Communism and the FamilyAlexandra Kollontai · 1920 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
11. Family, Youth and Culture, chapter 7 of The Revolution BetrayedLeon Trotsky · 1936 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
12. Make Way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working YouthAlexandra Kollontai · 1923 · on this site · cited in 3 teaching materialsAlso: 4edu
13. Fourth International document Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women's Liberation, II: The Fourth International and the Struggle for Women's Liberation: Our PerspectiveFourth International (11th World Congress) · 1979 · on this site · cited in 3 teaching materialsAlso: International Viewpoint
14. Fourth International document Women and the crisis of civilisationFourth International (16th World Congress) · 2010 · Fourth International World Congress 2010 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
15. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian ExistenceAdrienne Rich · 1980 · Signs; repr. in Blood, Bread and Poetry · external link · cited in 18 teaching materialsAlso: archive.4edu
16. Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory; How Not to Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working ClassTithi Bhattacharya · 2017 · Social Reproduction Theory (Pluto Press) · external link · cited in 17 teaching materialsAlso: International Viewpoint · versobooks.com
17. What is ecofeminism?Yayo Herrero (interviewed by Juan Tortosa) · 2011 · International Viewpoint · external link · cited in 13 teaching materialsAlso: ESSF
18. Women's oppression in globalizationStephanie Treillet · 2003 · International Viewpoint (translated from Critique Communiste) · external link · cited in 13 teaching materials
19. Remarks on GenderCinzia Arruzza · 2014 · International Viewpoint · external link · cited in 10 teaching materialsAlso: viewpointmag.com
20. Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionAdrienne Rich · 1976 · no copy online · cited in 9 teaching materials
21. The Feminist Challenge to Traditional Political OrganizingPenny Duggan · 1997 · IIRE Working Paper no. 33 · external link · cited in 9 teaching materialsAlso: ESSF
22. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of ColorKimberle Crenshaw · 1993 · Stanford Law Review · no copy online · cited in 7 teaching materials
23. Women and the Politics of ClassJohanna Brenner · 2000 · Monthly Review Press · external link · cited in 7 teaching materials
24. Women's Lives in the New Global EconomyPenny Duggan and Heather Dashner (eds.) · 1994 · IIRE Notebooks for Study and Research no. 22 · external link · cited in 7 teaching materials
25. Beyond the Unhappy Marriage: A Critique of the Dual Systems TheoryIris Young · 1981 · South End Press · no copy online · cited in 6 teaching materials
26. Feminism and nationalism in the third world, ch. 4Kumari Jayawardena · external link · cited in 6 teaching materials
27. Marxism and FeminismFréderique Vinteuil · 1983 · Critique Communiste (translated) · French text only · cited in 6 teaching materials
28. World Social Forum: Violence against women: the 'other world' must actWorld March of Women · 2000 · external link · cited in 5 teaching materials
29. Intersectionality from a Marxist PerspectiveJohanna Brenner · 2000 · Women and the Politics of Class (Monthly Review Press) · external link · cited in 4 teaching materials
30. 2000 good reasons to change course!World March of Women · 2000 · World March of Women · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
31. Blood, Bread and PoetryAdrienne Rich · 1986 · no copy online · cited in 3 teaching materials
32. Dangerous Liaisons: The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism (selection: chs 3-4)Cinzia Arruzza · Dangerous Liaisons · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
33. Marxism and the Oppression of Women (Introduction to Lise Vogel)Susan Ferguson; David McNally · 1987 · Rutgers University Press · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
34. Myths of Male DominanceEleanor Leacock · 2008 · Haymarket, Chicago · no copy online · cited in 3 teaching materials
35. Now you can participate as a whole personPenny Duggan · 1996 · International Viewpoint 275 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
36. Psychoanalysis and FeminismJuliet Mitchell · 1975 · Pantheon, New York · no copy online · cited in 3 teaching materials
37. The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class PerspectiveAngela Davis · 1981 · Women, Race and Class · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
38. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist RevolutionShulamith Firestone · 1970 · Farrar Straus Giroux · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
39. The Power of Women and the Subversion of CommunitySelma James; Mariarosa Dalla Costa · 1973 · Falling Wall Press, Bristol · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
40. The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir · 1949 · Everyman's Library · external link (extracts) · cited in 3 teaching materials
41. Women's Work, Men's Property: The Origins of Gender and ClassStephanie Coontz; Peta Henderson (eds.) · 1986 · Verso · no copy online · cited in 3 teaching materials
42. Women, Resistance and Revolution (ch. 2 Utopian proposals; ch. 5 Bread and roses)Sheila Rowbotham · 1973 · A Lane · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials