Bread and Roses [electronic resource] : Gender and Class Under Capitalism.

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Biography -- Introduction -- Gender and Class on International Women's Day -- Oppression and Exploitation -- Gender Unites Us, Class Divides Us -- Capitalism and Patriarchy: A Well-Matched Marriage -- Women's Struggle and Class Struggle -- 1. Grain Riots and Civil Rights -- Bread, Cannons, and Revolution -- Female Citizens Demand Equality -- Liberty, Fraternity, and Inequality of Class and Gender -- 2. Bourgeois Women and Proletarian Women -- Steam Engines, Looms, and Women

Women Workers Organize to Fight -- A Government of the Working People of Paris -- The Women Incendiaries and the Ladies with Parasols -- 3. Between Philanthropy and Revolution -- Voting Rights or Charity? -- Reform or Revolution? -- A Woman Living Between Two Eras -- On the Need to Welcome Foreign Women -- Petition to Reinstate Divorce -- The Workers' Union -- The Tour de France -- 4. Imperialism, War, and Gender -- Debates in the Second International -- Women at War -- Women and Nations -- Freedom During Wartime, Oppression During Peacetime? -- 5. Women in the First Workers' State in History

The Spark that Could Light the Flame -- Bread, Peace, Freedom, and Women's Rights -- Harrowing Contradictions -- The Philosophy of a Priest, the Powers of a Gendarme -- Comrade Kollontai -- Oppositional Women -- 6. From Vietnam to Paris, Bras to the Bonfire -- Economic Boom and Baby Boom -- Liberty, Equality, Sorority -- Radical and Socialist Feminists Against Patriarchy -- 7. Difference of Women, Differences Between Women -- The Imperialist Offensive Sweeps Everything Away -- Autonomous and Institutionalized Feminists in Latin America -- Revaluing the Feminine -- Integrated or Marginalized

Intersection of Differences -- 8. Postmodernity, Postmarxism, Postfeminism -- The 1990s: NGO-ization and Gender Technocracy -- Performativity, Parody, and Radical Democracy -- Consumerism, Individualism, and Skepticism -- By Way of Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bread and Roses: International Manifesto (2020) -- Bibliography -- Index

A passionate journey through the history of feminism by the founder of 'Pan Y Rosas'

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