Education Meeting
Women's Liberation & Socialism:
Where does sexism come from, and how do we end it?
Thursday March 21, 2013, 5:30 PM
Women's Liberation & Socialism:
Where does sexism come from, and how do we end it?
Thursday March 21, 2013, 5:30 PM
Campus Center, 2nd Floor, Room 2545, UMass Boston
Proposed Agenda:
1) Introductions/go-around -- 10 min
2) Education discussion: "Women's Liberation & Socialism" -- 60 min
Please read Chapters 1 & 5 from "Women & Socialism" by Sharon Smith
Don't have a copy of the book? Read Chapter 1 here, and Sharon Smith's fantastic article "Marxism, feminism, & women's liberation"
Additional resources:
“Turning Back the Clock? Women, Work and Family Today”
“The Origins of Women's Oppression” (audio)
“Marxism and Women's Liberation” (audio)
3) Building for our forum "The Fight against Sexism & Rape Culture" -- 45 min
Please read "Guilty verdicts are only a start"
4) Proposal on branch organization -- 10 min
Proposed Agenda:
1) Introductions/go-around -- 10 min
2) Education discussion: "Women's Liberation & Socialism" -- 60 min
Please read Chapters 1 & 5 from "Women & Socialism" by Sharon Smith
Don't have a copy of the book? Read Chapter 1 here, and Sharon Smith's fantastic article "Marxism, feminism, & women's liberation"
Additional resources:
“Turning Back the Clock? Women, Work and Family Today”
“The Origins of Women's Oppression” (audio)
“Marxism and Women's Liberation” (audio)
3) Building for our forum "The Fight against Sexism & Rape Culture" -- 45 min
Please read "Guilty verdicts are only a start"
4) Proposal on branch organization -- 10 min
"If women's liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable without women's liberation." -- Inessa Armand
From Dehli to Steubenville, from the attacks on women in the halls of Congress to the victim-blaming media -- sexism is far from dead. We need to fight against sexism in today's society -- but how can women achieve permanent liberation? The feminist movement of the 1960s made real gains -- so why have nearly all those gains been rolled back? For socialists, women's oppression is rooted in class society. As long as there is a 99% and a 1%, there is a basis for sexism to live on.
Join the International Socialist Organization to discuss the origins of women's oppression and how to achieve real liberation.
From Dehli to Steubenville, from the attacks on women in the halls of Congress to the victim-blaming media -- sexism is far from dead. We need to fight against sexism in today's society -- but how can women achieve permanent liberation? The feminist movement of the 1960s made real gains -- so why have nearly all those gains been rolled back? For socialists, women's oppression is rooted in class society. As long as there is a 99% and a 1%, there is a basis for sexism to live on.
Join the International Socialist Organization to discuss the origins of women's oppression and how to achieve real liberation.
