A-Infos (en) Canada, Anarchist journal Linchpin #6 - Anarchism 101: Anarchafeminism By Andrew Louks

As with anarchism, there are many ways to think of anarchafeminism. It can be 
thought of as a way to promote anarchist ideas within the feminist movement or 
vice versa - to promote feminist ideas within the anarchist movement. But 
anarchafeminism is not simply spun together by people involved in both. 
Anarchism and feminism share deep connections. ---- Both combine values of 
individual autonomy with collective good and collective action. An 
anarchafeminist women's health clinic, for instance, would necessarily include 
abortion in its services or referrals because women should control their own 
bodies. It would value equitable service for all, which means it could never be 
a privatized, never charge fees or institute practices that would exclude 
lower-income, immigrant or marginalized women from its service. And it would be 
organized by women, for women in a non-hierarchical fashion.

Both demand a rooting out of power and authority to achieve a liberation far 
beyond surface level equality, not stopping, for example, at wage equality and 
"equal access to exploitation" in top down workplaces that exploit for profit.

Anarchism can be thought of in relation to other political traditions as well. 
Anarchafeminists will find the liberal feminist focus on liberating Afghan women 
from their burqhas insufficient if that means most will then find themselves 
free from ultra-oppressive home environments only to be forced into exploitative 
labour markets oriented at rich Western consumers. Anarchafeminists would also 
see this limited focus on one kind of oppression as recreating colonial and 
patriarchal relations - telling women how they should be liberated, and using 
limited understandings of oppression to ultimately support war, occupation and 
different kinds of exploitation.

In practice, anarchafeminist struggles are often a response to sexism within 
anarchist organizations. The traditional left idea that so-called "non-class 
oppressions" should be regarded as secondary, that they will be automatically 
addressed by a successful working class struggle, is unacceptable to 
anarchafeminists. Anarchafeminists demand that change begins now, that radical 
feminist projects are an integral part of social change and not a subordinated 
after thought. An excellent example of women's struggles within and alongside 
larger anarchist movements is Mujeres Libres, or "Free Women of Spain," which 
organized and empowered women for decades leading up to the 1936 Spanish 
revolution. Here, women fought on the front lines against fascism and pushed the 
anarchist movement to recognize women's struggles as revolutionary struggles.

For more on anarchafeminism, do check out:

Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women
AK Press: 2005

RAG (Revolutionary Anarchafeminist Group): http://ragdublin.blogspot.com

The Emma Goldman Papers: http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/goldman/

Look for more anarchafeminist content in the December/January Linchpin
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