HEAR SHARON SMITH
Author of the new book from Haymarket…

WOMEN AND SOCIALISM
ESSAYS ON WOMEN’S LIBERATION

4PM SATURDAY, JUNE 25
@ QUIMBY’S BOOKSTORE, 1854 W. NORTH

THIRTY YEARS HAVE passed since the heyday of the women’s liberation struggle, yet women remain second-class citizens. Meanwhile, feminism has shifted steadily rightward since the 1960s, failing to take up the challenges facing women, especially working class women, in the United States—and internationally.

THIS NEW BOOK examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, badly needed today. Women and Socialism locates the source of women's oppression in class society, arguing that only a movement integrating the fight for women’s liberation with a struggle against a system that puts profit above human needs can end women’s oppression—along with all other forms of inequality.

SHARON SMITH IS the author of many articles on women's liberation and the U.S. working class. Her writings appear regularly in Socialist Worker newspaper and the International Socialist Review. She is the author of a forthcoming book on the history of the U.S. labor movement and has been on a speaking tour of the United States discussing her current book, Women and Socialism.

WOMEN AND SOCIALISM is available online from Haymarket Books. Bookstores can order through Consortium.

For more information contact chicago_socialists (at) yahoo.com or telephone 312-458-9380.

www.haymarketbooks.org