Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade [Paperback]

The entries not only illuminate the career of a remarkable woman, but yield insights into the early industrial system of the 1830s and 1840s. Library Journal

A child of both the French and Industrial revolutions, Flora Tristan (1803-1844) became a bold social critic and political activist. Assuming personal freedoms enjoyed by few women contemporaries, she devoted herself to the cause of universal justice. Tristan traveled widely and tirelessly strived to organize French men and women workers. Several of her writings are here translated into English for the first time.

DORIS BEIK, who died in May 1988, was a librarian at Columbia University and Swarthmore College. Her work as a translator includes Madame de Sta?ls Ten Years of Exile. PAUL BEIK is Centennial Professor Emeritus in the History Department at Swarthmore College. His published work includes The French Revolution Seen from the Right; Louis Philippe and the July Monarchy (with Doris Beik), and Modern Europe: A History since 1500 (with Laurence Lafore).

Preface

CHAPTER ONE from Women Travelers (1835)
Women Travelers

CHAPTER TWO
To the Peruvians
Outbreak of a Peruvian Revolution
Camp Followers
Scenes from a Civil War
A Sugar Refinery
The Women of Lima

CHAPTER THREE
The Ball
A Romantic Encounter
A Fated Alliance
from A Proletarians Story
The Women of the Future
Hope

CHAPTER FOUR from Promenades in London (1840)
The Monster City
A Visit to teh Houses of Parliament
Factory Workers
Prostitues
A Visit to a Progressive Penitenitiary
Saint Giles Parish (The Irish Quarter)
The Jewish Quarter
The Races at Ascot Heath
English Women
Mens Clubs

CHAPTER FIVE from Workers Union (1843)
To All Workers, Men and Women
How to Constitute the Working Class
Why I Mention Women
Resume of the Ideas Contained in This Book

CHAPTER SIX from The Tour of France (1843-44)
Early Overtures to ParlÃ+