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27 - Socialism, Gender, and the Emancipation of Women

from Part II - Transversal Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Susan Zimmermann
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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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 - 663
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Berger, Iris, Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900–1980 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).Google Scholar
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
Shone, Steve J., Women of Liberty (Leiden: Brill, 2020).CrossRefGoogle 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

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