Women and Socialism - Socialism and Women : : Europe Between the World Wars /

Women and Socialism - Socialism and Women : : Europe Between the World Wars / / ed. by Helmut Gruber, Pamela Graves, ontributors.

Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role of women within the history of the interwar years, whenboth the women's and socialist movements became prominent, and raises the key question of how power was di...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bard, Christine,
Blom, Ida,
De Weerdt, Denise,
Eley, Geoff,
Frangeur, Renée,
Gibson, Mary,
Graves, Pamela,
Grossmann, Atina,
Gruber, Helmut,
Jansz, Ulla,
Nash, Mary,
Perrot, Michelle,
Robert, Jean-Louis,
Romer Christensen, Hilda,
Saldern, Adelheid von,
Tilly, Louise A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Graves, Pamela,
Gruber, Helmut,
ontributors, ,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (450 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Photo Essays
  • List of Acronyms
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1914: Great Feminist Expectations
  • Part I. Social Experiments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The “New Woman”: Realities and Illusions of Gender Equality in Red Vienna
  • 2. Modernization as Challenge: Perceptions and Reactions of German Social Democratic Women
  • 3. German Communism and New Women: Dilemmas and Contradictions
  • Part II. Grassroots Initiatives
  • Introduction
  • 4. An Experiment in Women-Centered Socialism: Labour Women in Britain
  • 5. Gender and Democratic Socialism in the Netherlands
  • 6. Bread and Roses: Pragmatic Women in the Belgium Workers’ Party
  • Part III. Political Fractures
  • Introduction
  • 7. French Women in the Crossfire of Class, Sex, Maternity and Citizenship
  • 8. The French Communist Party and Women 1920-1939: From “Feminism” to Familialism
  • 9. “Ideals of Redemption”: Socialism and Women on the Left in Spain
  • 10. Women and the Left in the Shadow of Fascism in Interwar Italy
  • Part IV. Prelude to Welfare States
  • Introduction
  • 11. Social Democrats and the Woman Question in Sweden: A History of Contradiction
  • 12. A Double Responsibility: Women, Men, and Socialism in Norway
  • 13. Socialist Feminists and Feminist Socialists in Denmark 1920-1940
  • Part V. Reflections
  • 14. Women, Citizenship, and Power
  • 15. From Welfare Politics to Welfare States: Women and the Socialist Question
  • List of Contributors
  • Indexes
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • Subject Index by Country

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