Sisters Or Citizens? - POD TITLE

Klappentext This book is a study of the responses of working women to the oppression they faced both as women and as workers in the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung A century ago! just as today! working women faced oppression both as women and as workers. On which front would they fight? Were they sisters of the feminists! or citizens! members of the workers' movement? This book is a study of their responses to this dilemma. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Feminism and socialism 1876-1900: 1. Women and the beginnings of the socialist movement 1876-82; 2. Socialist parties in search of women 1882-99; 3. Feminists in search of a mass base: the rise and fall of social feminism 1889-1900; Part II. Origins of the socialist women's movement 1899-1914: 4. The Groups Feminists Socialists 1899-1905; 5. Women and the SFIO 1905-14; 6. The Groups des Femmes Socialistes 1913-14; Part III. Development and decline of the socialist women's movement 1914-79: 7. The First World War and socialist women 1914-20; 8. Reconstruction, decline, and rebirth 1921-79.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Sowerwine, Sowerwine Charles
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521089906
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08990-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, France, European History, 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, British Isles, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Gender studies: women and girls