UMASS Socialist and Anti Racist Feminism Memo

Written memos should be 2 single-spaced pages, 12-point font. 

Your memo should discuss topics or questions arising from the week’s reading. 

You might pull out specific passages to comment on or pull out what you see as a key concept, idea, or argument from the reading. 

These are thought pieces – they should be coherent, but they are not polished papers. 

You must end your memo by proposing at least one question for discussion.

Reading:

*Ferguson, Susan. 2020. Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction.

London: Pluto Press, Ch 3-5: pp. 71-81

*Lengermann, Patricia Madoo and Gillian Niebrugge. (1998). The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory 1830-1930, Ch 5: pp. 149-159

*Kollantai, Alexandra. [1909]. “Social Basis of the Woman’s Question”
*Kollantai, Alexandra. [1914]. “Working Woman and Mother”
*Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (1895). A Red Record (Ch 1, 5-6, 9-10)
*Cooper, Anna Julia, A Voice from the South [1892] (excerpts)