Sisters or Citizens?: Women and Socialism in France since 1876

Charles Sowerwine

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511897054

Sisters or Citizens?

Women and Socialism in France since 1876

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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-x

Preface
pp xi-xiv

Abbreviations of organisations
pp xv-xix

Bibliographical abbreviations
pp xx-xx

Introduction
pp 1-20

Part I - Feminism and socialism 1876–1900

1 - Women and the beginnings of the socialist movement 1876–82
pp 21-47

2 - Socialist parties in search of women 1882–99
pp 48-66

3 - Feminists in search of a mass base: the rise and fall of social feminism 1889–1900
pp 67-80

Part II - Origins of the socialist women's movement 1899–1914

4 - The Groupe Féministe Socialiste 1899–1905
pp 81-107

5 - Women and the SFIO 1905–14
pp 108-128

6 - The Groupe des Femmes Socialistes 1913–14
pp 129-142

Part III - Development and decline of the socialist women's movement 1914–79

7 - The First World War and socialist women 1914–20
pp 143-165

8 - Reconstruction, decline, and rebirth 1921–79
pp 166-183

Conclusion
pp 184-194

Appendix 1 - The Second International and the woman question 1889–1904
pp 195-197

Appendix 2 - French socialist women in figures
pp 198-201

Appendix 3 - Elisabeth Renaud and the Cambier affair
pp 202-205

Notes
pp 206-234

Bibliography
pp 235-241

Index
pp 242-248

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