Equivocal Feminists : the Social Democratic Federation and the woman question, 1884-1911 / Karen Hunt
Material type: TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiSeries: NetLibrary.; EBSCO eBook CollectionPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: xiii, 296 page 24cmISBN: 9780521890908Subject(s): Social Sciences | Groups of people | Social Democratic Federation | Social Democratic Federation | Femmes socialistes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire | Women and socialism | Women and socialismGenre/Form: Feminism.DDC classification: 305.420941 HUNItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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305.42094 RIC The political worlds of women | 305.42094 ROG Women and the people | 305.420941 CAI Victorian feminists | 305.420941 HUN Equivocal Feminists | 305.420941 LEV Victorian feminism, 1850-1900 | 305.420941 WOO A Room of one's own and Three guineas | 305.420941 WOO A Room of one's own and Three guineas |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Woman Question: The Theory: 1. The contribution of the founding fathers; 2. The SDF's understanding of the woman question; 3. Understanding the SDF and the woman question; Part II. The SDF and the Woman Question: The Theory and Practice of the Party on Aspects of the Woman Question: 4. The politics of the private sphere; 5. Women and work; 6. The suffrage; Part III. Women and the SDF: The Practical Implications of the SDF's Understanding of the Woman Question: 7. The SDF's attitude to women as potential socialists; 8. Women SDFers and their role in the party; 9. The organisation of the women within the SDF; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
This 1996 book takes a look at the relationship between socialism and feminism in the years before the First World War through a detailed examination of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), Britain's first Marxist party. It reassesses the history of the SDF, exploring for the first time SDF ideas and practice on issues such as marriage and 'free love', women and work, and the suffrage, as well as the attitudes taken to women and their potential as socialists. Dr Hunt shows how the SDF came to officially equivocate on the woman question and how this shaped what it meant to be a socialist woman in the following years. Through this fascinating examination of the links and antagonisms between the feminist and socialist movements, Dr Hunt not only reclaims the history of a forgotten group of socialist women, but also sheds light on the perennial debate about the comparative significance of sex and class in defining political identity.
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