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VivaValiente
10th November 2011, 04:01
Anyone can give me suggestion on any Marxist, leftist, socialist, communist, anarchist works that were written by women (besides Rosa Luxembourg)? I would prefer reading texts where these women addressed the issues of women in a revolutionary struggle.

I am not just asking because I am a woman but I ask as a revolutionary who feels that revolutionary ideology is a) overwhelming geared towards a male population b) written in the context of a revolution of a society of men, rather than a revolution for the "people" in itself. By this, I mean, that revolutionary works have conceptualized, whether intentionally or not, "the people" and "leaders of the revolution" as mostly male. c) someday I intend on writing out and developing my ideology that addresses the confusions/contradictions female radicals are faced with or the lack of both intellectual and action-based radical practice from women. In other words, in the radical spectrum, I feel there is a shortage of women. I specifically intend on focusing on women of minority backgrounds.

Thoughts are welcome on this but I also prefer if somebody gave me some suggestions/resources to look at.

Belleraphone
10th November 2011, 04:23
Hey there.

I am from Latin America so I don't know much about the left-wing movements in Europe, but a very famous feminist marxist that I know of is Catalina Ardrianzen of Peru, I looked on marxists.org for you and they have this work by her published.

http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/adrianzen/1974.htm

PC LOAD LETTER
10th November 2011, 04:28
http://marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/index.htm

Aurora
10th November 2011, 04:30
Alexandra Kollontai http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/index.htm
Clara Zetkin http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/index.htm

Can't say i'm familiar with their works yet but both wrote about women so i hope they're of use to you.

VivaValiente
10th November 2011, 05:12
I have heard of Emma Goldman as well. Forgot to mention that. But thanks for the suggestions everyone. Definitely helps.