“This absolutization of identity, this quick abrogation of universality, strikes me as politically very dangerous. For a start: if in the constitution of your identity, I have no rights of cognition, participation, criticism, then on what basis may you ask…
Category: Women’s Liberation / Feminism
How Ladies Against Women Flummoxed Phyllis Schlafly
By Barbara Winslow EDITORS NOTE If not planned well, guerilla theater–frequently an accompaniment to protests or sometimes the protest itself–can fall flat, can confuses more than enlighten, and can insult the very people it’s trying to reach. At its…
Feminism Almost Always Needs a Modifier
By Linda Burnham Introductory remarks by Kathy Scarbrough A really terrific critique of Lean In, the bestseller by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandburg (see below), has been written by Linda Burnham, who was active in the Third World Women’s Alliance in…
“How to Defang a Movement: Replacing the Political with the Personal”
“How to Defang a Movement:Replacing the Political with the Personal” was a panel presented at an unusual academic conference called A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the Late 1960s and the Early 1970s at Boston University on March 27-29, 2014.…
“Red Love” A Consciousness-Raising/Discussion
The following email correspondence began informally with a forwarded link to an article entitled “Alexandra Kollontai and Red Love” by Teresa L. Ebert available at http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/1724. Ebert’s article began, “WHAT IS ‘RED Love’—and more specifically, what is a socialist, or…