Eve And The New Jerusalem: Socialism And Feminism In The Nineteenth Century
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At the turbulent crossroads of two of history's most transformative movements, Eve and the New Jerusalem chronicles the radical dreamers of nineteenth-century Britain who dared to imagine a world liberated from both class oppression and the subjugation of women. Barbara Taylor reconstructs the vibrant, often forgotten world of the Owenite socialist movement, tracing how its adherents — working-class men and women alike — wove together a bold vision of sexual equality and collective social reform. From the cooperative communities of the 1820s to the collapse of utopian socialism in the 1840s, Taylor maps the ideological landscape with meticulous scholarly precision and genuine narrative passion. This landmark work of feminist and social history argues that the partnership between socialism and feminism was not a twentieth-century invention but a fiercely contested inheritance, one that was ultimately suppressed by the hardening orthodoxies of the Victorian age. Taylor's prose carries both the rigour of a historian and the empathy of a storyteller, illuminating the lives of visionary women who agitated, organised, and wrote in the name of a future that never fully arrived — leaving the reader to wonder what world we might inhabit had their revolution succeeded.
Author: Barbara Taylor
Format: Paperback
Published: 1983
Genre: Gender studies
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turbulent crossroads of two of history's most transformative movements, Eve and the New Jerusalem chronicles the radical dreamers of nineteenth-century Britain who dared to imagine a world liberated from both class oppression and the subjugation of women. Barbara Taylor reconstructs the vibrant, often forgotten world of the Owenite socialist movement, tracing how its adherents — working-class men and women alike — wove together a bold vision of sexual equality and collective social reform. From the cooperative communities of the 1820s to the collapse of utopian socialism in the 1840s, Taylor maps the ideological landscape with meticulous scholarly precision and genuine narrative passion. This landmark work of feminist and social history argues that the partnership between socialism and feminism was not a twentieth-century invention but a fiercely contested inheritance, one that was ultimately suppressed by the hardening orthodoxies of the Victorian age. Taylor's prose carries both the rigour of a historian and the empathy of a storyteller, illuminating the lives of visionary women who agitated, organised, and wrote in the name of a future that never fully arrived — leaving the reader to wonder what world we might inhabit had their revolution succeeded.