How Protesting Women Farmers Mirror ‘The Five Women’ in Mahasweta Devi’s Story
A foreshadowing in fiction of the role chosen by women in the farmers’ protest.
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Women and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism
The rise of second-wave feminism alongside environmental movements in the 1970s led to the emergence of ‘ecosocialist feminist’ politics which saw a connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural world due to capitalism and the subordination and oppression of women.
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Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day – Two Articles
From the beginning, International Women’s Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism; also an article by Kollantai on IWD written in 1920.
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Women from Latin America to Europe to Palestine, Celebrate International Women’s Day – Three Articles
From Argentina to Mexico, and from Poland to Germany, millions of women took to the streets to proclaim that they refuse to continue being marginalized, discriminated against, and murdered. From Palestine, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network sends greetings to women in struggle everywhere.
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Remembering Savitribai Phule
She was a pioneering teacher, feminist and anti-caste discrimination activist. She carried forward the activities of Satya Shodkhak Samaj after Jyotiba’s death.
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On Women’s Day, Poems by Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938 – 2019) is one of the most beloved, versatile and prolific Bengali writers of all time. The poems have been translated by her daughter, Nandana Dev Sen.
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Reading the Thoughts of the First Generation of Independent India’s Women Political Leaders
The Constituent Assembly of India had 15 women members, each of whom brought unique perspectives to the debates over the Constitution.
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Ancient Men were Hunters and Women were Gatherers. Right? Wrong
Archaeological evidence from Peru disproves an old belief.
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Why the Working-Class, Socialist History of International Women’s Day Matters Today
On International Women’s Day, Katherine Connelly looks at its origins in the socialist and feminist movements led by working class women.
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The Women of South Asia Sing Their Defiance
An anthology of poems that embodies women’s struggle to escape the maleness of language, and the world itself.
