The Emancipation of Women

These selections cover a wide variety of topics related to the problems of women in society. The origins and persistence of discriminatory and oppressive practices and modes of thought, the family, the important role of women in social movements and the need to combat prejudicial hangovers from the past are discussed. Significant for today is the thought Lenin gave to the need for women to have special demands and organizations of their own, within the movement for socialism and the true emancipation of women by way of victorious class struggle.