Here the reading material for this week’s session, dealing with the intersection of Capitalism, Patriarchy and Labour! The organising group has selected three articles for you.

During the session we will deal with three themes: Wage Labour and Patriarchy, the Public and Private Divide and the Dual Responsibility. Keep an eye out for inspiring quotes that deal with these themes as you read through the texts. For the evening itself, put on your organising hats, because we will be working practically with the literature!

• Dalla Costa and James – Women and the Subversion of the Community (Pamphlet Layout)

• Why Women Still Can’t Have It All – The Atlantic

• Article Loenen Universality of Human Rights and Gender Bias in the Rights to Work(1)

Feminism is on the move. Not only in the form of ideas about femininity, masculinity and whatever lies in between. Nor only in the breaking of norms and fight against conformity. We take feminism along in our daily lives. In the jobs that we seek, in the movements that we make, and in the comments that we share.

In this reading group, we want to travel through these different places of everyday encounters. The aim is to rethink these encounters by putting on feminist glasses. But we won’t be limiting our rethinking to the hidden patterns embedded in gender relations. Contemporary feminism can go way beyond. The challenge is to look for the interconnections with other silent voices and reflect on the way our dreams, our behaviour and our institutions are shaped.

This reading group is participatory, self-organised and free of charge. We collectively decide which subtopics to cover and what literature to read by splitting up into groups, which will each organize one of the sessions. The reading group will be in English, held from April 22 to July 1, bi-weekly on Wednesday evenings from 19:30 until 22:00 in political bookshop de Rooie Rat at Oudegracht 65 in Utrecht.

Here an overview of the groups, topics and dates.