Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris CommuneThis book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection. Examining the period from the early 1860s through that century's end, Carolyn J. Eichner investigates how radical women developed critiques of gender, class, and religious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune era, how these ideologies emerged as a plurality of feminist socialisms within the revolution, and how these varied politics subsequently affected fin-de-sià ̈cle gender and class relations. She focuses on three distinctly dissimilar revolutionary women leaders who exemplify multiple competing and complementary feminist socialisms: Andre Leo, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, and Paule Mink. Leo theorized and educated through journalism and fiction, Dmitrieff organized institutional power for working-class women, and Mink agitated crowds to create an egalitarian socialist world. Each woman forged her own path to gender equality and social justice. |
Contents
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Politics and Ideas Staging the Struggle | 34 |
Elisabeth Dmitrieff and the Union des femmes Revolutionizing Womens Labor | 67 |
André Léo and the Subversion of Gender The Battle over Womens Place | 95 |
Dmitrieff and Léo in the Aftermath Radical Denouement | 151 |
Mink in the Aftermath The Red Flag and the Future | 177 |
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Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune Carolyn Jeanne Eichner No preview available - 2004 |