Product Description: The sheer number of publications on Feminism make it difficult for students who approach the subject for the first time to gain a sense of what the main issues and interpretations are. This book addresses this by offering students an overview of feminism and its history across several countries and time periods, along with an annotated guide to direct them in their further reading...read more

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.

Looks at the global nature of a woman's right to vote. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is an autobiography of one of the most prominent female reformers who was suffragist, socialist, pacifist, humanist, and trade union organiser. She represented a much broader group of middle class men and women who turned to reformist causes such as crass materialism, the pursuit of profit at any cost,"laissez faire individualism" and a moral code of public virtue and private vice, in protest at the values of the Victorian age...read more