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A Cyborg Manifesto - Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism

In 'A Cyborg Manifesto', Donna Haraway criticizes traditional notions of feminism, particularly its emphasis on identity, rather than affinity. She explores the potential of the cyborg concept in order to construct a postmodern feminism that moves beyond dualisms and the limitations of traditional gender, feminism, and politics.

Topics: anarchism, feminism, introduction, lgbtiq, transhumanism
Authors: Donna Haraway

Against The Logic of Submission

The desire to change the world remains merely an abstract ideal or a political program unless it becomes the will to transform one’s own life. If joy and wonder, and a beautiful, indomitable existence are what we want, we need to try to achieve this here and now in rebellious defiance against all domination, eradicating the logic of submission from our lives, and our relationships and our revolutionary struggle - for the destruction of politics and the creation of life without measure.

Topics: anarchism, colonialism, feminism, gender, theory
Authors: Wolfi Landstreicher
Publisher: Venomous Butterfly Publications
Date: 2005
Sources: http://anti-politics.net/distro/

Anarcha-Feminism

Anarcha-Feminism, what it is, why it's important, affinity groups, organizing, history, and resources

Topics: anarchism, feminism, gender, history, introduction
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2001

Breaking the MANacles

An anti-patriarchy reader. This zine brings to- gether five articles addressing the issues and prac- tical steps “men” can take to deal with patriarchal behavior, to strengthen and sustain the movements of which they are part.

Topics: anarchism, class, feminism, gender, privilege
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Rock Bloc Collective

Consent or Coercion: An Introduction to Anarchism

A guide to voluntary cooperation to meet everyone’s needs, without bosses or rulers, and without sacrificing individual liberties.

Topics: anarchism, consent, feminism, introduction
Authors: Ed Stamm, others
Date: 2005

Dangerous Spaces

Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender. NOTE: Much of the content in this zine may be triggering.

Topics: direct-action, feminism, hender, lgbtiq
Authors: We'll Show You Crazy, Bitches
Publisher: Untorelli Press
Date: 2012
Sources: http://untorellipress.noblogs.org/

Dismantling the Boy's Club

Towards the Destruction of Patriarchy

Topics: anarchism, feminism, lgbtiq
Authors: bahlaz
Publisher: After the Fall Distribution an Press
Date: 2008

Enemies We Know

Enemies unite experiences that generate the environment of terror that makes up daily life under Empire

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, democracy, feminism, police
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Institute for Experimental Freedom

Feminism and Anarchy

To its credit, the women’s movements have raised the issue of women’s revolt in terms other than class-struggle ones, class struggle the only historical driving force seen by the Marxists, who have clarified the economic exploitation of women not paid for housework and child-rearing but have not challenged the reproduction of the power male workers wield compared to women workers. Capitalism has an ideological need of this form of social organisation.

Topics: anarchism, feminism, history, theory
Authors: Commission des femmes
Publisher: Fédération Anarchiste
Date: 1970
Sources: http://www.ainfos.ca/

Fighting Back

Strategies for Self-Defense for Women and Girls

Topics: anarchism, feminism, health
Authors: Anonymous

Fighting for Women's Freedom

A South African Anarchist Pamphlet. Anarchists recognise that women are specially oppressed as a sex (they face oppression as women as well as due to their class position). We call this oppression sexism. As Anarchists, we oppose this oppression on principle and in practice.

Topics: anarchism, feminism, gender, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/

Herbal Abortion

A Woman's DIY Guie

Topics: feminism, health
Authors: Annwen
Publisher: Godhaven Ink
Date: 2002
Sources: http://www.godhaven.org.uk

Jane

Documents from Chicago's Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973. This collection may not only to be viewed in terms of abortion rights, or even strictly in terms of the quest for women to have control over their bodies, but also in terms of any group of people face-up against the onslaught of modern-day slavery (in all its forms) taking control over their lives. Jane is an inspiration— a beautiful example that battles can be won without begging. Today they can be seen as a bold display of an effective underground organization operating with utter disregard for the letter of the law— women taking their lives into their own hands and taking responsibility for their actions, all the while without asking for anyone’s permission.

Topics: anarchism, feminism, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Firestarter Press
Date: 2004

Judeo-Christian Degradation of Woman

Topics: feminism, history
Authors: Joseph McCabe
Publisher: See Sharp Press
Date: 1926, 1998

Men Can Stop Rape

Supporting survivors, what men can do, racism and rape, and notes specific to male survivors.

Topics: anarchism, consent, feminism, lgbtiq, prisons
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Kansas Mutual Aid Collective
Date: Spring, 2003
Sources: http://www.mencanstoprape.org/

No Authority But Oneself

The Anarchist Feminist Philosophy of Autonomy and Freedom

Topics: anarchism, feminism, introduction
Authors: Sharon Presley
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/

Not Without My Consent

We are not exempt from being the oppressors--oppression is ingrained in our development. It is, however, scary to see in yourself that which you hate in society. Know what sexual assault is! Realize the effects your actions have on people.

Topics: consent, feminism, health
Authors: Bullet Girl, The Enforcer
Date: Summer 2004

On Women and Violence

Justice is a Woman with a Sword and Where Abolition Meets Action

Topics: anarchism, feminism
Authors: D.A. Clarke, Victoria Law
Publisher: NC Piece Corps

Patriarchy, Civilization, and the Origins of Gender

Topics: anarchism, feminism, gender
Authors: John Zerzan
Publisher: Medusa Distro

Privilege, Oppression, and Resistance

A chart summarizing the relationships between a variety of types of privilege

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, class, feminism, gender, indigenous, lgbtiq, parenting, posters, privilege, race, relationships
Authors: Anonymous

Raise Some Hell

A feminist child-rearing zine for everyone

Topics: anarchism, feminism, parenting
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The CRAP Collective
Sources: http://www.feministchildrearing.blogspot.com/

Rapists are Enemies

the rapist is not a deviant. Rape is the norm. Rape is not a crime of passion; it is quite possibly passion’s farthest opposite. Passion’s crime par excellence is murder; we murder for hate or for love. Murder is an act that violates the right to life that is promised by governments; its logical conclusion is pure murder, a violence without object. Rape has only its object. Rape’s logical concussion is pure distance. The rapist does not hate or love its object; the rapist only feels distance. At least perverts have their imagination to feel at home with. Rapists are alone even when they are with their thought. They are the saddest creatures to walk this earth.

Topics: feminism, gender, lgbtiq, posters
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Politics is not a Banana
Sources: http://www.politicsisnotabanana.com/, http://325.nostate.net, http://www.prole.info/, http://caringlabor.wordpress.com/

Reproduce Freely

A reproductive autonomy zine

Topics: anarchism, feminism, health
Authors: Ambika Kohili, Ashley P, Denisse Temin, Faith Ruben, Ghislaine Sathoud, Jessi MacEachern, Megan Wholberg, Melanie Bray, Olivia Dunbar, Patrick Powers, Peggy Cooke, Rika Moorhouse
Editors: Telyn Kusalik

Roots, Black Ghetto Ecology

Topics: class, feminism, gender, history, race
Authors: Wilmette Brown
Editors: Selma James
Publisher: Housewives in Dialogue
Date: March, 1986

Sisters in Arms

Women in the Spanish Revolution

Topics: anarchism, feminism, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/, http://www.struggle.ws/

Street Harassment

A feminist's guide to analysis and direct action

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, feminism
Authors: Cathy Ramos de la Aguilera

Take Back Your Life

A Wimmin's Guide to Alternative Health Care

Topics: anarchism, feminism, health
Authors: Alicia Non Grata
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/

Taking the First Step

Suggestions to people called out for abusive behavior

Topics: anarchism, consent, feminism, relationships
Authors: Wispy Cockles

The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

Born into poverty and plagued by it her entire life, educated by nuns in a convent school, chronically ill, the survivor of a nearly successful assassination attempt, and dead at a tragically early age, Voltairine de Cleyre doesn't seem a likely candidate to become what Paul Avrich called 'a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist.' But de Cleyre was undeniably one of the most important anarchist thinkers in the US or any other country. Greatly admired by her contemporaries for her brilliant writing and tireless schedule of public speaking, her ability to approach the most complex issues with a mixture of common sense, passion, and clarity makes her works as relevant today as they were a century ago.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, feminism, history, relationships
Authors: Criss Crass, Sara Baase, Sharon Presley, Voltairine de Cleyre
Publisher: AK Press
Date: 2004

This is Not a Love Story

Armed Struggle Against the Institutions of Patriarchy

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, feminism
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: After the Fall Press and Distro
Date: 2009

Transgender Liberation

A movement whose time has come; a marxist view of when and why transgender oppression arose

Topics: anarchism, feminism, gender, history, lgbtiq, privilege
Authors: Leslie Feinberg
Publisher: World View Forum
Date: April 1993

Understanding Patriarchy

Topics: anarchism, feminism, gender, introduction, lgbtiq
Authors: Bell Hooks
Publisher: Louisville Anarchist Federation Federation
Sources: http://imaginenoborders.org/, http://laff-experiment.org/

Unmarked Categories and the Question of Power

Some anarcha-feminist notes. Much of this text focuses on power, as well as the connecte issue of various forms of constraint on human action, with a particular focus on women.

Topics: anarchism, feminism, gender, lgbtiq, race, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: ERINYEN anarcha-feminist collective Berlin

Untying the Knot

Feminism, Anarchism, and Organization. The unstructured group has an important role to play in building for change. But at times it can be dominated by informal structures and elites, and it is often prone to internal arguments and insularity. How far, then, should the leaderless principles be taken?

Topics: anarchism, feminism, relationships
Authors: Cathy Levine, Jo Freeman
Publisher: Dark Star Press, Rebel Press
Date: 1984

What is Class Struggle Anarchism

The relation between the working class and non-class oppressions

Topics: anarchism, class, fascism, feminism
Authors: Wayne Price
Publisher: Zabalista Books
Sources: http://www.zabalista.net/, http://www.anarkismo.net/

Why She Doesn't Give A Fuck About Your Insurrection

Topics: anarchism, feminism
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2009

Why We Still Have A Lot To Learn

An excerpt from 'Do It Yourself: A Handbook for Changing Our World'

Topics: colonialism, feminism, schooling
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Trapeze Collective
Date: 2007

Witches, Midwices, and Nurses

A History of Women Healers. To know our history is to begin to see how to take up the struggle again.

Topics: feminism, health, history
Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
Publisher: Lunaria Press, Tacoma, WA
Date: 1972

Women in the Spanish Revolution

Topics: anarchism, feminism, history
Authors: Liz Willis
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/

Women, The State, And The Family

Topics: anarchism, feminism, history
Authors: E. Moraletat
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/

Xenofeminism

A Politics for Alienation, A collective of six lays out an audacious vision of positive freedom. Where technoscience and rationalism are seized and reconstituted as weapons for resistance, wehere the sedentary morass of modern moralistic identity politics is shed off * essentialist naturalism is exorcised.

Topics: anarchism, feminism, introduction
Authors: Laboria Cuboniks