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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Buhle, Mari Jo |
| Title, Analytic | German-American Socialists and the Woman Question |
| Title, Monographic | Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 |
| Place of Publication | Urbana |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
| Date of Publication | [1981] |
| Location in Work | 1-48 |
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| Abstract | In 1861, Augusta Lilienthal sailed to America with her new husband, "an idealistic Jewish physician." The Lilienthals were "abolitionist in spirit," involved in issues of labor and women's rights, and Augusta "emerged from private life an ardent propagandist for woman's emancipation. . . . In the 1870s, German-American Socialists shaped a perspective on women's emancipation. . . . [W]omen activists began in the late 1880s to espouse Socialism, but under their own banners. They shared with their ethnic counterparts a faith in human solidarity, a desire for community, a sentimental love of honest labor and perfected domesticity. But they were nevertheless closer to abolitionist traditions than to European Socialist practice, and they devised a strategy utterly alien to the German Americans as the Germanic Socialist was to American-born radicals. Thus a second force for Socialism, no less vital than the first, sprang from sources the immigrants had least expected." |
| Call Number | Digital file (PDF) |
| MKI Terms | Women and socialism -- United States -- History |