Since the dawn of time, tradition assigns women the roles of mothers and domestic
slaves. ---- At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20thcentury, anarchists like Emma Goldman, Louise Michel and Voltairine de Cleyrebrought the struggle for the emancipation of women into the anarchist ideologicalbase. Humanity could not be free if half of it persisted in not wage or politicalslavery, but domestic slavery, imposed by the weight of traditions which wantedwomen to be virtuous, that is to say cloistered in their house with manychildren, in the domestic service of her husband to whom she owed blind andsilent obedience. ---- They attacked all the social institutions that form thebasis of family traditions: marriage1, education, gender roles, and also thebirth rate.Anarchists, women and men, were thus at the forefront of the fight for the rightto contraception, which was prohibited and even punishable by death for abortion.The trial of the "sterilizers of Bordeaux", in 1935, against the network ofBordeaux anarchists who practiced voluntary vasectomies, marked the minds of thepre-war era2.In the 1960s and 1970s, the MLF appeared, a women's liberation movement, anautonomous and non-mixed feminist movement which demanded the free disposal ofwomen's bodies, questioning patriarchal society. It was born in the wake of theAmerican Women's Lib, the events of May 1968, the struggles for the right tocontraception and abortion initiated by Family Planning in France, all thestruggles against the different forms of oppression and of misogyny, and demandsfor the equality of all rights, moral, sexual, legal, economic, symbolic.Questioning the forms of traditional Marxist / Leninist activism, he draws hismodes of action from the libertarian repertoire (general assemblies, smalldecentralized groups, extra-parliamentary actions), in his struggle to changetraditional stereotypes and demand emancipation. women, their equality with men(particularly in wages) as well as the fight against "rabbitism", for a woman'scontrol of her free and voluntary procreation and a sexuality cut out from thereproductive function."The factory is for the workers, the uterus is for the women, the production ofliving things belongs to us", MLF "politics and psychoanalysis" Women'sdemonstration in Paris, October 6, 1979 for the right to free and free abortionGig,Omo[detergent brand],brats,IT'S PURE!Contraception for allFree and free abortionCondemned to reproductioncampaign for abortionFREE and FREEMLF1 Emma Goldman argued that "marriage is primarily an economicarrangement...[woman]pays for it with her name, her private life, herself-esteem, her whole life."2 Read our brochure Anarchosyndicalists and vasectomy in the 1930s, internationalnetworks, practices and debates; http://cnt-ait.info/2021/04/05/vasectomy-1930/http://cnt-ait.info/2023/03/07/greve-des-ventres/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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