No God, No Boss, No Husband: The world’s first Anarcha-Feminist group | Revolution Sociale
Argentina
La Voz de la Mujer described itself as “dedicated to the advancement of
Communist Anarchism.” Its central theme was that of the multiple nature
of women’s oppression. An editorial asserted, “We believe that in
present-day society nothing and nobody has a more wretched situation
than unfortunate women.”Women, they said, were doubly oppressed – by
bourgeois society and by men. Its feminism can be seen from its attack
on marriage and upon male power over women. Its contributors, like
anarchist feminists elsewhere, developed a concept of oppression that
focused on gender oppression.
Marriage was a bourgeois
institution which restricted women’s freedom, including their sexual
freedom. Marriages entered into without love, fidelity maintained
through fear rather than desire, oppression of women by men they hated –
all were seen as symptomatic of the coercion implied by the marriage
contract. It was this alienation of the individual’s will that the
anarchist feminists deplored and sought to remedy, initially through
free love and then, and more thoroughly, through social revolution.
