Archive of Feminism & Gender
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How Women Workers in Russia Sparked a Revolution
One of the greatest lessons the Russian state learned on March 8, 1917 was never to underestimate the women of Petrograd. On that fateful morning, International Women’s Day, women workers threw down their tools and walked out of the factories and into the streets.
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Women of the Barricades
Writing in the Guardian, pioneering British feminist Sheila Rowbotham named The Women Incendiaries by Edith Thomas in her top 10 radical history books.
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“Some people call us heroes”
The Watsonville Canning strike of 1985-87 was a dramatic show of the power of women workers, whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement.