movement interested deeply Japan, demonstrated her ment to the struggle for women's liberation and as well as her responsibility as a leader of the world Trotskyist party, the Fourth work on an international level ha helped revolutionary Marxists gain a bette understanding of the of oppression and the way forward in the struggle for women's liberation.
In 1969, in response to the demand from the explanations of the social and economic roots feminist movement for of women's oppression, some of her articles and published them in Problems of Women's Liberation.
In these articles she polemicised against a whole series of false ideas and self-defeating - that biology has been women's destiny; that men, not class society, are the enemy; that women form a social class or a caste, whose role in reproduction is comparable to that of the working class in production; that can be liberated women's revolution against patriarchy rather than through the overthrow of capitalism. Evelyn also contrasted male/female roles today with the leading part played by ancient societies Evelyn Reed's work on the origins and evolution of women's oppression is based on the historical materialist approach of Marx and Engels. Evelyn was convinced that for women to know how to bring an end to the economic, cultural, and political oppression they suffer, it was necessary for them to understand the roots of this oppression.
To this end, million-year women's society.
She scientific Evelyn assembled Eyelyn society. through eventually agriculture, women in property system -cradle to the grave.
The ROBLEMS y Evelyn takes expedition through pre-history, from cannibalism to culture, and uncovers the world of the ancient matriarchy. In Woman's Evolution, she explains that women played an essential role in the development of human explains how was through the collective labour of men and women as a group that human society evolved; and because of their responsibilities in caring for children, the interests of the early 'feminids' went beyond concern for themselves as individuals. enabled women's ancestors to lead the way towards group or communal living, in which tasks were shared equally and every task was essential to the preservation of the group.
explains that women responsible not only for the care of children, ut were also largely responsible for the task hich were to lead to basic advances in huma T led developed the skills the development medicine, science, engineering, building, and so on.
During this period there was no private It was communal and classless, and within this system the maternal clan developed. This was a genuine collective in which every individuai was provided for and protected by the entire community from the matriarchal clan was the direct opposite of the father-family (patriarchy) that requires women to work for a husband, home and children and not for society as a whole.
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