Sisters or Citizens?: Women and Socialism in France since 1876 - Softcover

Sowerwine, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521089905 ISBN 13: 9780521089906

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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. The French feminist movement claimed to speak for working women as well as for their wealthier sisters. But by the end of the nineteenth century, most politically minded working women rejected feminism, which seemed to them a movement for middle-class women.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Charles Sowerwine is Reader in French History at the University of Melbourne and Professor of History at the Universite de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521089905
• ISBN 13: 9780521089906
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272