Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune

This study of three important female leaders of revolutionary Paris shows how feminisms influenced the social and political events of the time. Carolyn J. Eichner vividly evokes radical women's roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. She demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection. Examining the period from the early 1860s through that century's end, Eichner investigates how radical women dev...