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“The second sex” and the left : documents and memories fron th feminist intervention in the communist youth organisation Rigas Phereos 1974-1978

• Ρεπούση, Μαρία

The article analyses the feminist groups within the Greek renovating communist left during the 1974-1978 period. The challenge to the political perceptions of this part of the left provided by these feminist groups aimed at explaining the power relationship between the two sexes and at crafting out a development of a liberating system for both genders.Based on documents and personal reminiscences of the period, the article follows the feminist collectives since their creation and selectively draws out the new ideas that are promoted related to a variety of issues such as the determination of women’s status, the role and the limits of women’s movement and the relationship between the women’s and the labour movement and its political expression. Moreover the text attempts to identify and discuss different feminist approaches to the relationship between the women and the Left and to evaluate it in the light of its impact on the political discourse of the Left.

• Political Science
• Sociology

• Πολιτική επιστήμη
• Κοινωνιολογία
• Ιστορία

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