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Rebel crossings : new women, free lovers, and radicals in Britain and America / Sheila Rowbotham.
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Rowbotham, Sheila
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English
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London ; New York : Verso, [2016]
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ix, 502 pages ; 24 cm
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HQ1595.A3 R69 2016
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Feminists
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Great Britain
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Biography
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Socialists
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Great Britain
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Biography
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Women and socialism
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Great Britain
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History
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Women and socialism
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United States
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History
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Radicalism
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Great Britain
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Radicalism
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United States
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History
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Born, Helena 1860-1901
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Daniell, Miriam 1861-1894
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Dix, Gertrude
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Tufts, Helen 1874-1962
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Nicol, Robert Allan 1868-1956
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Bailie, William 1866-1957
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Biographies
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Summary note
"Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World utopias. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam Daniell, Gertrude Dix, Robert Nicol and William Bailie cross the Atlantic dreaming of liberty and equality. The hope for a new age is captured in the name Miriam and Robert give their love child, born shortly after their arrival: Sunrise. A young Bostonian, Helen Tufts learns of Miriam's defiant spirit through her close friendship with Helena; the love she feels for Helena and later for William fundamentally alters her life. All six are part of a wider historical search for self-fulfillment and an alternative to a cruelly competitive capitalism. In articles, poems and allegories Helena, Helen and Miriam resist the cultural constraints women face, while female characters in Gertrude's novels struggle to combine personal happiness with radical social commitment. William campaigns against class inequality as a socialist and an anarchist while longing to read and study.Robert, the former union militant, becomes preoccupied with personal growth and mystical enlightenment in the wilds of California. Rebel Crossings offers fascinating perspectives on the historical interaction of feminism, socialism, and anarchism and on the incipient consciousness of a new sense of self, so vital for women seeking emancipation. These six lives bring fresh slants on political and cultural movements and upon influential individuals like Walt Whitman, Eleanor Marx, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Patrick Geddes and Benjamin Tucker. It is a work of significant originality by one of our leading feminist historians and speaks to the dilemmas of our own time."--Publisher information.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-486) and index.
Contents
Radical endeavour: Helena Born
Subversive intimations: Miriam Daniell
Awakenings: Robert Allan Nicol
Exaltation: Autumn 1889
Seekers: 1890
New bearings: America 1890-1894
'Knotty Points': William Bailie
Wanderers: 1892-1894
Revolutionary lineages: Helen Tufts
Whitmanites and new women: 1894-1897
Fabianism and free love: Gertrude Dix
Cosmic vibrations: 1894-1897
Love, pure food and the market: 1897-1899
Family ructions and political exploration: 1900
'Separation': 1901-1902
'Clues and meanings': 1898-1902
A new beginning: 1901-1902
Romancing the West: 1902-1908
Bundles of contradictions: 1903-1907
Political reorientation and a new arrival: 1907-1914
Elusive realities: 1908-1914
Loose endings.
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ISBN
9781784785888 ((alk. paper))
1784785881 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2016037503
OCLC
959965248
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40026606440
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