Knowra Anarcha-feminism Anarcha-feminism Anarcha-feminism combines anarchist opposition to coercive hierarchy with feminist opposition to patriarchy. It seeks social relations organized without either domination.
Anarchism : A political tradition opposing coercive authority and advocating forms of social organization without rulers. Anarcha-feminism draws its critique of the state and hierarchy from this tradition.
Emma Goldman : A Lithuanian-born anarchist writer and activist who lived from 1869 to 1940. Her writings linked women's emancipation, sexual freedom, and opposition to state authority.
Anarcha-feminist organizing : Collective political practice that combines feminist goals with anarchist methods of self-organization. It puts opposition to hierarchy into meeting structures, campaigns, and shared decision-making.
State feminism : A political approach in which state institutions promote or implement policies framed as advancing women's equality. Anarcha-feminists question whether state institutions can end domination while retaining coercive authority.
Feminism : A range of movements and ideas seeking to understand and end gender-based inequality. Anarcha-feminism carries feminist opposition to patriarchy into anarchist politics.
Voltairine de Cleyre : An American anarchist writer and lecturer who lived from 1866 to 1912. Her essays examined women's subordination and the limits of legal emancipation.
Reproductive justice : A framework linking the right to have children, not have children, and raise children in safe communities. It connects bodily autonomy to the material conditions and institutions that shape reproductive choices.
Liberal feminism : A feminist approach focused chiefly on equal rights and opportunities within existing political and economic institutions. It contrasts with anarcha-feminism's challenge to the institutions and hierarchies themselves.
Patriarchy : A social system in which men hold disproportionate power in political, economic, and domestic life. It is a central form of hierarchy anarcha-feminists seek to dismantle.
Lucy Parsons : A Black American labor organizer and anarchist who lived from about 1851 to 1942. Her organizing connected class struggle, state violence, and women's political agency.
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