Eve and the New Jerusalem : socialism and feminism in the nineteenth century / Barbara Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--History--19th century.

Feminism.

Women and socialism--History--19th century.

Women and socialism.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 402 pages : portraits ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Virago, 1983.

Summary:

When Eve and the New Jerusalem was first published over thirty years ago, it was received as a political intervention as well as a landmark historical work. Barbara Taylor became the first woman to win the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, and the book went on to become a feminist classic. As women across the globe find themselves at the sharp end of neoliberal 'austerity' programmes, discriminatory social policies and fundamentalist misogyny, Eve and the New Jerusalem is as essential as it ever was. Book jacket.

Contents:

I The Rights if Woman: A Radical Inheritance 1

II Women and the New Science of Society 19

III Feminist Socialists: Some Portraits 57

IV 'The Men are as Bad as their Masters...': Working Women and the Owenite Economic Offensive, 1828-34 83

V Eve and the New Jerusalem 118

Prologue 118

Woman's Mission 123

Feminism and Freethought: The Story of Emma Martin (1812-51) 130

The Woman-Power 156

VI Love and the New Life: The Debate over Marriage Reform 183

VII Women and Socialist Culture 217

VIII Paradise Lost: Women and the Communities 238

IX Sex and Class in the Post-Owenite Era 261.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 353-385.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0860682579 :

0860682587

OCLC:

10458304