Women, Revolution and Socialism

A collection of texts prefaced by Josefina Martinez and Diana Assunção

(Communard.E.S, 13 June 2025)

Book presentation by Alberta Commaret

PhD candidate, ERRAPHIS (Research Group on Philosophical Rationalities and Knowledge) EA 3051, University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès, activist within the collective Du Pain et des Roses

17 March 2026 at 6pm

Conference room, MISHA — Unistra

Proposed by students, in response to the International Women's Rights Day of 8 March.

From the Paris Commune to the Russian Revolution, generations of Marxists and activists fought for the emancipation of women, articulating their struggles with those of the working world. If throughout the twentieth century this socialist feminism established itself as a major theoretical and political current, it remains today largely unknown.

This collection brings together for the first time in French the principal contributions of this current on the emancipation of women. It brings into dialogue both classical authors such as Marx, Engels and Luxemburg, and others less known to the general public, such as Kollontaï, Zetkin and Armand. The texts gathered here reveal the great theoretical richness of Marxist feminism.

The preface and critical apparatus by Josefina L. Martinez and Diana Assunção shed light on the political relevance of these texts and invite the reader to put them in perspective with certain contemporary feminist debates.