Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- 26 Socialism and Colonialism
- 27 Socialism, Gender, and the Emancipation of Women
- 28 Socialism and Ecology
- 29 Crises and Futures of Social Democracy
- Index
- References
27 - Socialism, Gender, and the Emancipation of Women
from Part II - Transversal Perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- 26 Socialism and Colonialism
- 27 Socialism, Gender, and the Emancipation of Women
- 28 Socialism and Ecology
- 29 Crises and Futures of Social Democracy
- Index
- References
Summary
Visiting Highgate Cemetery in London in 1983, the centenary of the death of Karl Marx, feminist theologian and leftist peace activist Dorothee Sölle captured, in a beautiful poem, women’s ‘difficulties with chuck ‘n’ freddy’. ‘[S]ocialism’, wrote Sölle, ‘ … i imagine / is a building with many apartments / and i pick a quarrel with you, guys / … / learning to think feminine / we will need to widen–expand / just like skirts / all your concepts / since we are always in peculiar circumstances–permanently expecting / … ’1
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- The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 639 - 663Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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Further Reading
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Boxer, Marilyn, and Quataert, Jean H. (eds.), Socialist Women: European Socialist Feminism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (New York: Elsevier, 1978).Google Scholar
Franzway, Suzanne, and Fonow, Mary Margaret, Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011).Google Scholar
Gaffin, Jean, and Thoms, David, Caring and Sharing: The Centenary History of the Co-operative Women’s Guild (Manchester: Co-operative Union, 1983).Google Scholar
Graves, Pamela, and Gruber, Helmut (eds.), Women and Socialism, Socialism and Women: Europe between the Two World Wars (New York: Berghahn, 1998).Google Scholar
Holmstrom, Nancy (ed.), The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics (New York: Monthly Review Press 2002).Google Scholar
Mackie, Vera, Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900–1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).Google Scholar
Sklar, Kathryn Kish, and Dublin, Thomas (eds.), ‘Women and Social Movements Internationally’ (WASI) and ‘Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820’, available at https://search.alexanderstreet.com/wasg and https://search.alexanderstreet.com/wasi, last accessed 20 January 2022 (both databases contain a wealth of relevant primary material).Google Scholar
Todorova, Maria, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s–1920s (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).Google Scholar