Anti-Fascism Against Machismo collects and continues a conversation begun by Tammy Kovich (as “Petronella Lee”) in 2019. Four feminist, antifascist revolutionaries jump off from each other’s reflections and bring the particularities of their varied contexts to bear on one central problem: What has and will a women’s war against fascism look like?
Kovich kicks things off with a probing look at the central importance of gender to fascism, and its particular formulations in today’s far right. She continues by examining the historic role of women as partisans in three antifascist wars of the 1930s and 40s—Ethiopia, Spain, and Yugoslavia—contrasting this with the restrictive image of “antifa” as a young, Euro man of a particular subcultural aesthetic and antifascist activity as not much broader than street fights. Finally, she builds on this to propose what an antifascism that takes a fight against patriarchal domination—on the right and the left—seriously.
