Revolutionary socialist movements have held out the promise, in
both theory and practice, that women can achieve liberation through
their participation in the revolutionary process. But many women in
post-revolutionary societies have watched in frustration as this
promise has been pushed into the future or dropped from the agenda
altogether. The essays in Promissory Notes renew the debate about
the connections between feminism and socialism by examining the
position of women in socialist thought from the time of Marx to the
present. The book looks at the central theoretical formulations of
the "Woman Question" in classical Marxist thought, then explores
their applications first in the Soviet Union and China, then in a
series of third world regimes and contemporary Eastern European
countries. The volume ends with a roundtable debate in which a
number of scholars and activists take up the central theoretical
issues raised throughout the book.Contributors include Joan B.
Landes, Elizabeth Waters, Wendy Zeva Goldman, Christina Gilmartin,
Muriel Nazzari, Maxine D. Molyneux, Sonia Kurks and Ben Wisner,
Christine Pelzer White, Amrita Basu, Marilyn B. Young, Mary
Buckley, Barbara Einhorn, Martha Lampland, Lourdes Beneria, Zillah
Eisenstein, Delia D. Aguilar, Delia Davin, Kumari Jayawardena, and
Rayna Rapp.
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