The Strike that Made a Difference
In: Critical times: interventions in global critical theory, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 241-262
ISSN: 2641-0478
Abstract
Commenting on three activist documents on the global women's strike published by the Italian network Non Una di Meno and by the collective ∫connessioni precarie, this text reads the March 8 strike in Italy as part of a transnational process that was both deepened and accelerated by the use of the strike as a feminist practice. The March 8 strike was a political and social strike. It made a difference because it allowed feminism to go beyond the borders of the "woman question," to become both a mass political practice and a means by which to question the whole neoliberal order at the very moment in which patriarchal violence had begun to be recognized as fundamental to it.