Study Group This Week

--- MEETING THIS WEEK ---

Wednesday, April 28, 8pm

Discussion of Sharon Smith's ISR article on Engel's classic, The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State. You can find that article online here: http://www.isreview.org/issues/02/engles_family.shtml

If you are interested in delving deeper into the topic, here are some recommendations:

The entire original text is available here: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm

Here are some shorter articles -

- Eleanor Burke Leacock, excerpt from Myths of Male Dominance (a book which updates the anthropological findings in Origins): http://socialistworker.org/2008/09/05/roots-of-womens-oppression

- Sherry Wolf, The Roots of Gay Oppression: http://www.isreview.org/issues/37/gay_oppression.shtml

- Alexandra Kollontai, Communism and the Family (Russian revolutionary on the state of the family after the revolution): http://marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/communism-family.htm

- Kollontai, Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle: http://marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1921/sex-class-struggle.htm

- Kollontai, The Social Basis of the Woman Question (partially an argument around bourgeois, or reformist, feminism): http://marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1909/social-basis.htm

Even if you have not read the articles we still hope you will come out. See you there!

Location: University of Houston - Main Campus, in the Baltic Room in the underground of the University Center (UC)