Women, Resistance and Revolution (41 page)

The connection between the oppression of women and the central discovery of Marxism, the class exploitation of the worker in capitalism, is still forced. It is still coming out of the heads of women like me as an idea. It is still predominantly just a notion in the world. I believe the only way in which their combination will become living and evident is through a movement of working-class women, in conscious resistance to both, alongside black, yellow and brown women struggling against racialism and imperialism. We are far from such a movement now. But when the connection between class, colonial and sexual oppression becomes commonplace we will understand it, not as an abstract imposed concept, but as something coming out of the experience of particular women.

Some of the pamphlets and journals referred to in the text are not generally available in most commercial bookshops or in libraries. Although some may be out of print here are the publication addresses:

Comment
Communist Party, 16 King Street, London.

International Socialism
and A. Kollontai,
Communism and the Family
Pluto Press
International Socialism
, 6 Cottons Gardens, London E2.

The Irrational in Politics
Solidarity Pamphlet no. 33, c/o H. Russell, 53A Westminster Road, Bromley, Kent.

A. Kollontai,
Women Workers’ Struggle for their Rights
Falling Wall Press, 79 Richmond Road, Montpelier, Bristol, BS6 5EP.

Leviathan
968 Valencia Street, San Francisco, California 94110, U.S.A.

Monthly Review
116 West 14th Street, New York 10011, U.S.A.

Publications for the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, and general material about China Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, 24 Warren Street, London.

Shrew
Women’s Liberation Workshop, 3 Shavers Place, Haymarkct, London SW1.

Socialist Woman
and Fidel Castro,
Women’s Liberation, The Revolution Within the Revolution
Merit Pamphlets, New York, 1970. Red Books, 182 Pentonville Road, London N1.

Stand
58 Queen’s Road, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne 2.

Women, A Journal of Liberation
3028 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A.

Some of these are also obtainable from Collets, Charing Cross Road, and from Agit Prop, 248 Bethnal Green Road, London
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2.

For a bibliography of the books mentioned in the text see amongst others Sheila Rowbotham,
Women’s Liberation and Revolution
, a bibliography, obtainable from Falling Wall Press.

Bibliography

This bibliography is part of an extensive descriptive bibliography compiled by Sheila Rowbotham entitled
Women’s Liberation and Revolution
which was first published in March 1972 by the Falling Wall Press, 79 Richmond Road, Montpelier, Bristol.

Those books marked with an asterisk are particularly useful.

Paperback editions are indicated by (p).

Some general books on women’s liberation

BEAUVOIR, Simone de,
The Second Sex
, London, Cape, 1968, Four Square (p), 1969; and
The Nature of the Second Sex
, London, Four Square (p), 1968.

FIGES, Eva,
Patriarchal Attitudes
, London, Faber, 1970.

FIRESTONE, Shulamith,
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
, London, Cape, 1971.

FRIEDAN, Betty,
The Feminine Mystique
, London, Penguin (p), 1968.

GREER, Germaine,
The Female Eunuch
, London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1970, Paladin (p), 1971.

MILLETT, Kate,
Sexual Politics
, London, Hart-Davis, 1971.

MITCHELL, Juliet,
Woman’s Estate
, London, Penguin (p), 1971.

MORGAN, Robin (ed.),
Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement
, New York, Vintage Trade Books (p), Random House, 1970.

TANNER, Leslie B. (ed.),
Voices from Women’s Liberation
, New York, Signet (p), 1971.

General histories of feminism

ABENSOUR, Léon,
Histoire Génerale du Femsinisme
, Paris, 1921.

BLEASE, W. Lyon,
The Emancipation of English Women
, London, 1910.

*COWLEY, Joyce,
Pioneers of Women’s Liberation
, Merit pamphlet.

*DANGERFIELD, George,
The Strange Death of Liberal England
, London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1966, Paladin (p), 1970.

*FLEXNER, E.,
Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the U.S.
, Atheneum (p), 1968.

*GORDON, Ann D., BUHLE, Mari-Jo and SCHROM, Nancy F., ‘Women in American Society’, in
Radical America
, vol. V, no. 4.

HAYS, H. R.,
The Dangerous Sex: The Myth of Feminine Evil
, London, Methuen, 1966.

*IRELAND, Waitrand, ‘You don’t need the Vote to Raise Hell. The rise and fall of the Suffrage Movement’, in
Leviathan
, vol. 2, no. 1, May 1970.

KRADITOR, Aileen,
The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement
, New York, Columbia University Press, 1965.

KRADITOR, Aileen,
Up from the Pedestal: Selected Writings in the History of American Feminism
, Chicago, Quadrangle, 1968.

O’NEILL, William,
The Woman Movement: Feminism in the United States and England
, London, Allen & Unwin (p), 1969.

O’NEILL, William,
Everyone was Brave: The Rise and Fall of Feminism in America
, Chicago, Quadrangle, 1969.

RAMELSON, Marion,
Petticoat Rebellion
, London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1967.

TANNER, Leslie B. (ed.),
Voices from Women’s Liberation
, New York, Signet (p), 1971.

‘Women in History: a Re-creation of Our Past’, in
Women: a Journal of Liberation
, spring 1970.

‘Women in Revolution’, in
Women: a Journal of Liberation
, summer 1970.

Women and the Puritan Revolution in England and America

ADAMS, C. F.,
Antinomianism in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1636–38
, Boston, 1894 (reprinted, Burt Franklin, 1966).

BROCKBANK, E. E.,
Richard Hubberthorne of Yealand
, London, 1929.

*CLARK, Alice,
The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century
, London, 1919 (reprinted, F. Cass, 1968).

COHN, Norman,
The Pursuit of the Millennium
, London, 1959, Paladin (p), 1970.

GARDINER, Dorothy,
English Girlhood at School
, London, 1929.

GUILLET, Edwin C.,
The Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman
, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 1963.

*HILL, Christopher,
Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England
, London, Seeker & Warburg, 1964, Panther (p), 1969.

HILL, Christopher,
Puritanism and Revolution
, London, Panther (p), 1968.

KETTLE, Arnold,
An Introduction to the English Novel
, London, Hutchinson (p), 1967.

MACARTHUR, Ellen, ‘Women Petitioners and the Long Parliament’, in
English Historical Review
, vol. XXIV, 1909.

PINCHBECK, Ivy, and HEWITT, Margaret,
Children in English Society
, London, Routledge, 1969.

*THOMAS, Keith, ‘Women in the Civil War Sects’, in
Past and Present
, no. 13, 1958.

UNDERWOOD, Dale,
Etherege and the Seventeenth-Century Comedy
, Yale University Press, 1957.

WALZER, Michael,
The Revolution of Society
, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966.

WRIGHT, Louis B.,
Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England
, Cornell University Press, 1958.

The eighteenth century and the French Revolution: France and England

ABENSOUR, Leon,
La Femme et le Feminisme avant la Révolution
, Paris, 1928.

CHEVALIER, Louis,
Classe Laborieuse et Classes Dangereuses
, Paris, 1958.

COBB, Richard,
A Second Identity: Essays on France and French History
, London, Oxford University Press, 1969.

GOLDSMITH, Margaret,
Seven Women against the World
, London, 1935.

*RACZ, Elizabeth, ‘The Women’s Rights Movement in the French Revolution’, in
Women: A Journal of Liberation
, summer 1970.

RUDÉ, George,
The Crowd in the French Revolution
, London, Oxford University Press, 1959, (p) 1968.

*RUDÉ, George,
The Crowd in History: a Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730–1848
, New York, Wiley (p), 1964.

STORR, M. S.,
Mary Wollstonecraft et le Mouvement Féminist dans la Littérature Anglaise
, Paris, 1932.

UTTER, R. P. and NEEDHAM, G. B.,
Pamela’s Daughters
, London, 1937.

VILLIERS, Baron Marc de,
Histoire des Clubs des Femmes et des Legions d’Amazone 1793–1848
, Paris 1871.

*WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary,
Vindication of the Rights of Women
, London, 1792 and
Posthumous Works
, London, 1798.

Feminism and the early radical and socialist movements: France, America, England, Russia

ABENSOUR, Léon,
Le Féminisme sous la Régne de Louis Philippe et en
1848
, Paris, 1913.

BESTOR, Arthur E. jnr,
Backwoods Utopia
, University of Philadelphia, 1950.

*BRAILSFORD, H. N.,
Shelley, Godwin and their Circle
, London, 1951.

*COLE, G. D. H.,
A History of Socialist Thought
, London, Macmillan, 1953.

DEMAR, Clair,
Ma Loi d’Avenir et l’Appel d’une Femme du Peuple sur l’Affranchissement de la Femme
, Paris, 1833.

DEPVIN, Jeanne,
Cours de Droit Social pour les Femmes
, Paris, 1848.

DOLLÉANS, Edouard,
Feminisme et Mouvement Ouvrier
, Paris, 1951.

FOURIER, C.,
Théorie des Quatre Mouvements
in
Oeuvres Complètes
, Paris, 1841–5.