Thirty years have passed since the heyday of the women's liberation movement, yet women remain without equal rights while feminist thought has shifted steadily rightward. This fully updated collection of essays examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, focused on both gender and class, with a new chapter on the stirrings of a new movement today.Sharon Smith is the author of `Subterranean Fire,` also published by Haymarket Books, as well as many articles on women's liberation and the US working class. Her writings appear regularly in `Socialist Worker` newspaper and the `International Socialist Review.`

Contents: Women's liberation : the Marxist tradition --
The origin of women's oppression --
Modern women's movements --
Mainstream feminism : from women's liberation to "power feminism" --
From radical feminism to separatism --
Women and the family : the domestic-labor debate --
Black feminism and intersectionality --
Feminism and radicalism in the age of neoliberalism --
Combating gender and national oppression in revolutionary Russia --
Conclusion : where do we go from here?