Women and Socialism: Updated Edition

Essays on Women's Liberation

Women's rights

Thirty years have passed since the heyday of the women's liberation movement, yet women remain without equal rights while feminist thought has shifted steadily rightward. This fully updated collection of essays examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, focused on both gender and class, with a new chapter on the stirrings of a new movement today.

About the author

Sharon Smith is the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States, also published by Haymarket books, as well as many articles on women's liberation and the U.S. working class. Her writings appear regularly in Socialist Worker newspaper and the International Socialist Review.

Reviews

"An excellent resource for anyone concerned with women’s liberation and an antidote to the mystification which permeates gender politics today. Its attention to the oppressions visited on women generally – the denial of abortion rights and the dead hand of organized religion – make it a fresh and immediate read. It very effectively arms us with the necessary arguments and ideas to set about this business of ending women’s oppression"
—Socialist Democracy

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