 | Seven Women Against the World Subjects: Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; History; Cultural Studies; Military & Strategic Studies; Asian Politics; British Politics; European Politics; Government; International Politics; Political Philosophy; Political Theory; Sociology & Social Policy; British History; European History; World/ International History; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Imperial & Colonial History; Social & Cultural History; Political History; Gender; Military Studies; Protest Movements; Revolution - Government; Anarchism; Fascism & Nazism; Gender Politics; Marxism & Communism; Social Democracy; Socialism; Political Sociology; This book, first published in 1935, examines the lives of seven revolutionary women: Charlotte Corday, Théroigne de Méricourt, Flora Tristan, Louise Michel, Vera Figner, Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg. The revolutionary impulses of these remarkable women emerge as the natural result of the historical associations of their age, but the author concludes that some sacrifices were made in vain because there was no strong revolutionary movement behind them. This book is a key analysis of the reasons behind the revolt of these women against their systems of society, and why some of them thought it worth while to die if necessary for the principles in which they believed. Margaret Goldsmith |
