Pornography...
New questions in
The left has not paid sufficient attention to the debate in the women's movement around
Finding our way between the need to defend
For this special dossier for International women's right to live without feeling the victim 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.
The questions under discussion range from the 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
Solidarity...
Since the 1970s, practical and psychological aid In our final article in this issue Terry Conway to women victims of domestic and sexual violence from Britain describes the way in which women, has been a major activity of women's and feminist as the wives, mothers and women of the associations. Estela Ratamoso tells us about the communities, in a number of important industrial activity of the Luna Nueva association in disputes in Britain, have created a new identity
Montevideo, Uruguay, and the ways it helps and role for themselves as a central force within the solidarity movement.
feminism..
Women's Day we present a series of movement are less so in the Marxist movement.
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 worker"
, to which they feel, with greater or
Today, however, the demand for "the right to esser reason, traditional Marxism confines self-defined" is too often today added to the
"shopping list" of demands without a more them.
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 contributions - these are questions which, unfortunately, we are not used discussing, and we will return to them in later issues of
International Viewpoint
Violence...
women.
Wilhem Reich.
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