Sisters or Citizens Women and Socialism in France since 1876 [Paperback]

This book is a study of the responses of working women to the oppression they faced both as women and as workers in the nineteenth century.A century ago, just as today, working women faced oppression both as women and as workers. On which front would they fight? Were they sisters of the feminists, or citizens, members of the workers' movement? This book is a study of their responses to this dilemma.A century ago, just as today, working women faced oppression both as women and as workers. On which front would they fight? Were they sisters of the feminists, or citizens, members of the workers' movement? This book is a study of their responses to this dilemma.A century ago, just as today, working women faced oppression both as women and as workers. On which front would they fight? Were they sisters of the feminists, or citizens, members of the workers' movement? This book is a study of their responses to this dilemma. The French feminist movement claimed to speak for working women as well as for their wealthier sisters. But by the end of the nineteenth century, most politically minded working women rejected feminism, which seemed to them a movement for middle-class women.Part I. Feminism and socialism 18761900: 1. Women and the beginnings of the socialist movement 187682; 2. Socialist parties in search of women 188299; 3. Feminists in search of a mass base: the rise and fall of social feminism 18891900; Part II. Origins of the socialist women's movement 18991914: 4. The Groups Feminists Socialists 18991905; 5. Women and the SFIO 190514; 6. The Groups des Femmes Socialistes 191314; Part III. Development and decline of the socialist women's movement 191479: 7. The First World War and socialist women 191420; 8. Reconstruction, decline, and rebirth 192179.