Back La tirania de la manca d'estructures Catalan Die Tyrannei in strukturlosen Gruppen German La tiranía de la falta de estructuras Spanish La Tyrannie de l'absence de structure French A tirania das organizações sem estrutura Portuguese அமைப்புமுறையற்ற தன்மையின் கொடுங்கோன்மை Tamil 無架構的暴政 Chinese

The Tyranny of Structurelessness

"The Tyranny of Structurelessness" is an essay by American feminist Jo Freeman that concerns power relations within radical feminist collectives. The essay, inspired by Freeman's experiences in a 1960s women's liberation group,[1][2] reflected on the feminist movement's experiments in resisting leadership hierarchy and structured division of labor. This lack of structure, Freeman writes, disguised an informal, unacknowledged, and unaccountable leadership, and in this way ensured its malefaction by denying its existence.[3] As a solution, Freeman suggests formalizing the existing hierarchies in the group and subjecting them to democratic control.

The phrase has been used to describe one problem in organizing (the other being "rigidity of structure", according to ecofeminist Starhawk).[4]

In 2008 Community Development Journal reviewed the article as a "classic text" which editors felt had influenced the practice of community development.[5] That year a John F. Kennedy School of Government course used the paper in a course on leadership.[6] Many Marxists and social anarchists cite the essay as an important text for developing effective and democratic forms of organizing, while some Marxists and many individualist anarchists argue that it fails to fully justify formal structures.

  1. ^ "The Tyranny of Structurelessness". www.jofreeman.com. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  2. ^ Rebick, Judy (September 22, 2002). "Lip service: the anti-globalization movement on gender politics". Herizons.
  3. ^ Rycroft, Robert S. (2017). The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-61069-758-3.
  4. ^ Starhawk, "Power and Anarchy" Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, The Awakened Woman Archived 2009-03-19 at the Wayback Machine, August 19, 2004
  5. ^ Rosie Meade, "Classic Texts: no. 11, Jo Freeman. The Tyranny of Structurelessness" Archived 2021-08-10 at the Wayback Machine (c. 1972), Community Development Journal, Oxford Unity Press, December 9, 2008.
  6. ^ (PAL-101) "Exercising Leadership: Mobilizing Group Resources" General Course Information Archived 2012-02-20 at the Wayback Machine, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Fall 2008.

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