Sexuality and Socialism · History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation

Thirty years have passed since the heyday of the women’s liberation struggle, yet women remain second-class citizens. Feminism has shifted steadily rightward since the 1960s. This collection of essays 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 US working class. Her writings appear regularly in *Socialist Worker* newspaper and the *International Socialist Review*.