The Communist Women’s Press

The last twenty years have been somewhat of a renaissance for communist women’s history and though the Working Woman and Woman Today are excellent resources in understanding the impact communist women have had on social movements, they have not featured prominently in some of these studies.

Communist conceptions of women’s emancipation were more complicated than has been acknowledged, and anti-communism has and continues to obfuscate their contribution to feminist theory. This book offers a look at some of the themes that Party women focused on, and how they theorized women’s conditions, gender and race inequality, fascism as a gendered threat, and the solutions they proposed.

Communist women grappled with many of the same issues we are faced with today—some we thought we had won (birth control and abortion access) and some have still yet to be secured (maternity leave and universal health insurance). What you will find in these readings are concrete questions and solutions. These articles deserve to be included in the larger feminist pantheon as radicals more often proposed some of the very solutions that we need to resist fascism and prevent its permanent rise to power.

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