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Flora Tristan

Feminism in the Age of George Sand

Sandra Dijkstra author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verso Books

Published:23rd Jul '19

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Flora Tristan was one of the first women radicals to draw clear connections between the plight of disaffected workers and powerless women.

Active in the 1830s and 1840s, Flora Tristan is best known for her book "Workers' Union", an account of the conditions of women and workers in Peru, London, Paris and the provinces of France. Regarded as something of a pariah, she was one of the first women radicals to draw clear connections between the plight of disaffected workers and powerless women. Her version of socialism has been regarded as leading towards Marx. Sandra Dijkstra aims to paint a clear picture of Tristan as a class- and gender-conscious women writer in a transitional historical period, and to demonstrate her influence on Marxism.

Flora Tristan was the pioneer social explorer of the early Victorian world, chronicling the condition of women and labor from the sugar plantations of Peru to the salons of the July Monarchy and the satantic mills of industrial England. In this brilliant study, Dijkstra restores Tristan to her rightful but complex place in the histories of socialism and feminism. -- Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

ISBN: 9781788734868

Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 15mm

Weight: 230g

240 pages