Equivocal Feminists

The Social Democratic Federation and the Woman Question 1884-1911

• Author(s): Karen Hunt,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 296
• ISBN_10: 052189090X
  ISBN_13: 9780521890908
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Modern / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Political Science / Women in Politics , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Gender Studies ,

Description:... This book takes a new look at the relationship between socialism and feminism before the First World War, through a detailed examination of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), Britain's first Marxist party. It reassesses the history of the SDF, exploring for the first time SDF ideas and practice on issues such as marriage and "free love," women and work, and the suffrage, as well as the attitudes taken toward women and their potential as socialists. Dr. Hunt shows how the SDF came to equivocate officially on the woman question and how this shaped what it meant to be a socialist woman in the following years.