By Carol Hanisch & Kathy Scarbrough What do current anti-abortion and transgender activists have in common with Anthony Comstock of the late 1800s? A lot, it turns out. First, a reminder of who Anthony Comstock was since his activity was…
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A “Poverty Draft” for Women Only?
New York Legalizes Commercial Surrogacy by Kathy Scarbrough and Carol Hanisch As Kathy Sloan predicted in an article we published in 2017, NY State just joined most other states in the U.S. by passing provisions enabling the well-off to use…
How Radical Feminism Has Changed!
An interview with Carol Hanisch by FRESA in Chile . The Interview FRESA: In 2011, you wrote an article for On The Issues Magazine, called “Women’s Liberation: Looking Back, Looking Forward”. In one of the paragraphs about “the feminist bandwagon”,…
Whatever Happened to Radical Feminism?
An Interview by Brazilian Radical Feminist Aline Rossi with Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough Brazilian radical feminist Aline Rossi recently interviewed Meeting Ground editors and long-time activists Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough for her Portuguese-language blog Feminismo Com Classe .…
Women’s Unpaid Labor in Political Economy* Revisited
by Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough *Generally, Marxist Political Economy comprises an integrative analysis of the economy, society and politics. These three fields are not considered as isolated but as interdependent structures that evolved historically. The analysis of class struggle,…
The Appalling Tactics of Corporate Drug Dealers
Compiled by Carol Hanisch Anyone who pays attention to the news knows that the U.S. has a drug problem and it’s not just coming from street dealers. There have been a spate of articles about Big Pharma and its…
Feminist Consciousness: Race and Class
By Amanda Martins, from Brazil Among the most controversial topics in feminism are the race and class questions, which have motivated many women to develop new theories that encompass multiple realities taking into account region, race, economy and sexuality. Meanwhile…
Birth Strike: A Review
Birth Strike, The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work by Jenny Brown Reviewed by Colette Price When a woman gives birth, she goes into labor, it’s work, usually hard work. At the end she delivers the product, a baby. It’s…
The Left Colludes with Capitalism on “Gender Identity”
As feminists who have been critical of the concept of “gender identity” for many years, we have been exasperated and concerned that groups and individuals on the Left, who claim to be materialists, have embraced this ideology with little or…
Surrogacy in the United States
by KATHY SLOAN for presentation to the UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN– CSW 61 “TRADING ON THE FEMALE BODY” MARCH 14, 2017 The practice of commercial surrogacy in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds with…