Socialist Feminism, the First Decade, 1966-76 (Paperback)

by Gloria Martin (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
This history deals with all the major issues that have split women's groups, divided socialist parties, and caused dissension in the general society over recent years. It reviews these issues through the perspective of the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP), a Marxist Feminist group based in Seattle. For readers interested in conflicts which have riven the women's movement...or conflicts on the left...this book will be good reading. Not, however, because it explains the forces in conflict, but because it IS a force in conflict.

Members of the FSP, unlike some other Marxist groups, believe that feminism is NOT in conflict with socialism, and that sexism is NOT merely a vestige of bourgeois capitalism... [The FSP] is a group that is fighting its battles with a vision of itself as the vanguard of a world movement... Of course, the early history of the Communist Party in Russia and of the Women's Movement in Seneca Falls read the same way, and readers can judge for themselves the ultimate outcome for this group. -- Small Press, January-February 1987

Product Description
Records the forging of the first Marxist feminist party in history -- the Freedom Socialist Party. Set in the tumultuous upsurges of the '60s and '70s, the book is charged with audacity, verve and optimism. Gloria Martin vividly describes the eruption of the women's liberation movement amidst the antiwar and civil rights struggles, scathingly critiques the role of most of the Left, and probes with a sharp scalpel the internal conflicts in the movements for social change.

This is a story of years of intense work by radical women and men. It is a chronicle, a reference, an analysis, a judgment, and a guidebook. Its central message is inescapable: socialist feminism as a theme and strategy has never been more urgently needed than it is today.

Includes index and bibliography.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Freedom Socialist Publications; 2 Sub edition (April 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932323006
• ISBN-13: 978-0932323002
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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