Eve & The New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

by Barbara Taylor

Overview

A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction.

In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal property, free love and birth control. In Britain, the visionary ideals of the Utopian Socialist, Robert Owen, attracted thousands of followers, who for more than a quarter of a century attempted to put theory into practice in their own local societies, at rousing public meetings, in trade unions and in their new Communities of Mutual Association.

Barbara Taylor's brilliant study of this visionary challenge recovers the crucial connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. In doing so, it opens the way to an important re-interpretation of the socialist tradition as a whole, and contributes to the reforging of some of those early links between feminism and socialism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780860682585
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	03/14/2017
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.87(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Barbara Taylor's books include Eve and the New Jerusalem, The Last Asylum and On Kindness, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, History Workshop Journal, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches History and English at Queen Mary University of London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction ix

Introduction to the 2016 Edition xix

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 288

List of Sources 353

Facsimile of Catherine Barmby's 'The Demand for the Emancipation of Woman' 386

Index 394