Emma Goldman scrisse il saggio “Il suffragio femminile”, il quale inizia così:

We boast of the age of advancement, of science, and progress. Is it not strange, then, that we still believe in fetich [sic] worship? True, our fetiches have different form and substance, yet in their power over the human mind they are still as disastrous as were those of old. Our modern fetich is universal suffrage. Those who have not yet achieved that goal fight bloody revolutions to obtain it, and those who have enjoyed its reign bring heavy sacrifice to the altar of this omnipotent deity. Woe to the heretic who dare question that divinity! …

… There is no reason whatever to assume that woman, in her climb to emancipation, has been, or will be, helped by the ballot.

"Woman's development" from Goldman, "Woman Suffrage," in Anarchism and Other Essays (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910), 217.

In Trentino, negli ultimi mesi si è parlato di quote rosa per limitare il cosiddetto gender gap negli organi rappresentativi. Le proposte delle quote rosa e del voto di preferenza di genere contenute nei ddl di Cogo e Bombarda prevedevano di legiferare per promuovere gli interessi di una élite politica, seppur sotto-rappresentata (le donne), piuttosto che promuovere gli interessi dell’intera popolazione. Continua a leggere →