Why we Must View Women’s Liberation in the UK Through a Class Lens - Kyril Whittacker
Why we Must View Women’s Liberation in the UK Through a Class Lens - Kyril Whittacker, member of the Communist Party of Britain and a writer who lived in Vietnam It is quite often heard in the United Kingdom that women are liberated, they are free. No longer are women forced by a patriarchal society to take this or that job, no longer are women expected to remain in the home, and some observers state almost as if to seem degrading in their analysis women are free because ‘Even a woman can be prime minister’ as some conservative feminists have put forth. This is bourgeois feminism, feminism in name only and this can be seen reflected in recent events in Europe. In the recent Italian elections for example, when Georgia Meloni was elected Prime Minister of Italy, many newspapers instead of opting to describe the fascist nature of her party and the certain horrific conditions to come for the oppressed in Italy, many newspapers instead use...