Surmounting the Barricades

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn J. Eichner is a historian and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of South Florida. Klappentext This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France'srevolutionary 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, andreligious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune era, how these ideologies emergedas a plurality of feminist socialisms within the revolution, and how these variedpolitics subsequently affected fin-de-si cle gender and class relations. Shefocuses on three distinctly dissimilar revolutionary women leaders who exemplifymultiple competing and complementary feminist socialisms: Andre Leo, ElisabethDmitrieff, and Paule Mink. Leo theorized and educated through journalism andfiction, Dmitrieff organized institutional power for working-class women, and Minkagitated crowds to create an egalitarian socialist world. Each woman forged her ownpath to gender equality and social justice. Zusammenfassung Covers revolutionary women leaders in the Paris Commune. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Before 1. The Actors and the Action 2. Politics and Ideas: Setting the Stage Part II: During 3. Elisabeth Dmitrieff and the Union des femmes: Revolutionizing Women's Labor 4. André Léo and the Subversion of Gender: The Battle Over Women's Place 5. Paule Mink and the clubistes: Anti-Clericalism and Popular Revolution Part III: After 6. Dmitrieff and Léo in the Aftermath: Radicalizing History 7. Mink in the Aftermath: Radicalizing the Future Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Autorentext

Carolyn J. Eichner

Klappentext

Each woman forged her own path to gender equality and social justice.

Zusammenfassung
Covers revolutionary women leaders in the Paris Commune.

Inhalt

Introduction
Part I: Before

1. The Actors and the Action
2. Politics and Ideas: Setting the Stage
   Part II: During
3. Elisabeth Dmitrieff and the Union des femmes: Revolutionizing Women's Labor
4. André Léo and the Subversion of Gender: The Battle Over Women's Place
5. Paule Mink and the clubistes: Anti-Clericalism and Popular Revolution
   Part III: After
6. Dmitrieff and Léo in the Aftermath: Radicalizing History
7. Mink in the Aftermath: Radicalizing the Future
   Conclusion
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index