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Women and Socialism - Socialism and Women - Europe Between the World Wars (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Women and Socialism - Socialism and Women - Europe Between the World Wars (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the
larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role
of women within the history of the interwar years, whenboth the
women's and socialist movements became prominent, and raises the
key question of how power was distributed between the genders in a
historical setting. The emblematic title of this volume highlights
the fundamental conception of this comparative study of eleven West
European countries: that in the interwar decades two great
movements gained in strength, converged, diverged, competed, and
cooperated. Each of these movements is viewed as acomplex matrix of
organized and unorganized participants. However, by far the most
provocative questions deal with gender relations. Central to these
are definitions of femininity and masculinity in terms of
mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion at the workplace, in the
home, and in the political arena. The mystique of the "new woman"
in the 1920s and the 1930s challenged traditional notions of gender
identity and relations, not the least of which was the redefinition
of the role of men. The main issue addressed in this volume is not
how male socialists "dealt with" the woman question or how women
functioned in or outside left-wingparties; it rather centers on
illustrating the power distribution between the sexes in specific
political and cultural contexts. This rigorously focused and
coherent volume, to which some of the best-known scholars in the
field have contributed, will no doubt establish itself as the
standard reference work for years to come.
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