Equivocal Feminists

Author : Karen Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511000768
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equivocal Feminists written by Karen Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the relationship between socialism and feminism in the years before World War I through an examination of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), Britain's first Marxist party. It reassesses the history of the SDF, exploring 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 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 opens up the perennial debate about the comparative significance of sex and class in defining political identity.

Author : Karen Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521890908
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equivocal Feminists written by Karen Hunt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship between socialism and feminism through a detailed study of Britain's first Marxist party, the Social Democratic Federation.

Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226401790
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equivocal Beings written by Claudia L. Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings."

Author : Krista Cowman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350307033
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in British Politics, c.1689-1979 written by Krista Cowman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account examines some of the areas of women's political activity in Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the election of the first female Prime Minister in 1979. It shows how women had worked in a variety of arenas and organizations before the suffrage campaign and explores the directions their political activity took afterwards.

Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119238226
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Dada and Surrealism written by David Hopkins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender. This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the field Offers historical coverage as well as in–depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender One of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth century Dada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres

Author : June Hannam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134766688
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialist Women written by June Hannam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating new study examines the experiences of women involved in the socialist movement during its formative years in Britain and the active role they played in campaigning for the vote. By giving full attention to this much-neglected group of women, Socialist Women examines and challenges the orthodox views of labour and suffrage history. Torn between competing loyalties of gender, class and politics, socialist women did not have a fixed identity but a number of contested identities. June Hannam and Karen Hunt probe issues that created divisions between these women, as well as giving them the opportunity to act together. In three fascinating case studies they explore: * women's suffrage * women and internationalism * the politics of consumption. Believing above all that being a woman was vital to their politics, these individuals sought to develop a woman-focused theory of socialism and to put this new politics into practice.

Author : June Purvis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135367094
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945 written by June Purvis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists in their own fields have each written a chapter on a key aspect of womens lives including health, the family, education, sexuality, work and politics. Each contribution provides an overview of the main issues and debates within each area and offers suggestions for further reading. It not only provides an invaluable introduction to every aspect of womens participation in the political, social and economic history of Britain, but also brings the reader up to date with current historical thinking on the study of womens history itself.

Author : Carla Lam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317088069
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment written by Carla Lam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With attention to the ways in which new reproductive technologies facilitate the gradual disembodiment of reproduction, this book reveals the paradox of women's reproductive experience in patriarchal cultures as being both, and often simultaneously, empowering and disempowering. A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates the assimilation of women's embodied power into patriarchal systems of symbolism, culture and politics through the inversion of women's and men's reproductive roles. Contending that new reproductive technologies represent another world historical moment, both in their forging of novel social relations and material processes of reproduction, and their manner of disembodying women in unprecedented ways - a disembodiment evident in recent visual and literary, popular and academic texts - this volume locates the roots of this disembodiment in western political discourse. A call to feminist political theory to re-remember the material dimensions of bodies and their philosophical significance, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies, political and social theory and the study of science, technology and health.

Author : Carla Lam
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472437071
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment written by Carla Lam and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With attention to the ways in which new reproductive technologies facilitate the gradual disembodiment of reproduction, this book reveals the paradox of women's reproductive experience in patriarchal cultures as being both, and often simultaneously, empowering and disempowering. A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates the assimilation of women's embodied power into patriarchal systems of symbolism, culture and politics through the inversion of women's and men's reproductive roles. Contending that new reproductive technologies represent another world historical moment, both in their forging of novel social relations and material processes of reproduction, and their manner of disembodying women in unprecedented ways - a disembodiment evident in recent visual and literary, popular and academic texts - this volume locates the roots of this disembodiment in western political discourse. A call to feminist political theory to re-remember the material dimensions of bodies and their philosophical significance, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies, political and social theory and the study of science, technology and health.

Author : Tanya Cheadle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526125277
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual progressives written by Tanya Cheadle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of the Victorian period. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, it provides the first group portrait of Scotland’s hitherto neglected sexual rebels. They include Bella and Charles Pearce, prominent Glasgow socialists and disciples of an American-based mystic who taught that religion needed ‘re-sexed’; Jane Hume Clapperton, a feminist freethinker with advanced views on birth-control and women’s right to sexual pleasure; and Patrick Geddes, founder of an avant-garde Edinburgh subculture and co-author of an influential scientific book on sex. A consideration of their lives and work forces a reappraisal of our understanding of British sexual progressivism during this period and will therefore be of interest to all historians of modern gender and sexuality.