Flora Tristan, utopian feminist : her travel diaries and personal crusade

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Flora Tristan, utopian feminist : her travel diaries and personal crusade

selected, translated, and with an introduction to her life by Doris and Paul Beik

Indiana University Press, c1993

  • : pbk

Available at  / 11 libraries

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Translated from French

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-186) and index

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"The entries not only illuminate the career of a remarkable woman, but yield insights into the early industrial system of the 1830s and 1840s." —Library Journal A child of both the French and Industrial revolutions, Flora Tristan (1803-1844) became a bold social critic and political activist. Assuming personal freedoms enjoyed by few women contemporaries, she devoted herself to the cause of universal justice. Tristan traveled widely and tirelessly strived to organize French men and women workers. Several of her writings are here translated into English for the first time.

Table of Contents

Preface CHAPTER ONE from Women Travelers (1835) Women Travelers CHAPTER TWO To the Peruvians Outbreak of a Peruvian Revolution Camp Followers Scenes from a Civil War A Sugar Refinery The Women of Lima CHAPTER THREE The Ball A Romantic Encounter A Fated Alliance from A Proletarian's Story The Women of the Future Hope CHAPTER FOUR from Promenades in London (1840) The Monster City A Visit to teh Houses of Parliament Factory Workers Prostitues A Visit to a Progressive Penitenitiary Saint Giles Parish (The Irish Quarter) The Jewish Quarter The Races at Ascot Heath English Women Men's Clubs CHAPTER FIVE from Workers' Union (1843) To All Workers, Men and Women How to Constitute the Working Class Why I Mention Women Resume of the Ideas Contained in This Book CHAPTER SIX from The Tour of France (1843-44) Early Overtures to Parisian Workers The Riverboat to Auxerre Interview with the Bishop Of Dijon Intuition at Lyon: The Impossible Task Visit to a Hospital Silk Workers and Other Trades Radical Thoughts while Visitying Lyon Churches The Croix-Rousse Working-Class Quarter Soldiers in a Cafe in Saint-Etienne' Confrontation with a Hostile Journalist The People of Avignon At the Port ofMarseille: First Impressions Toulon, with changes of Mood Return to Marseille The Bishop of Nimes The Washerwomen of Nimes The Relevance of 1789 The Watch Story A Police Story ChHAPTER SEVEN Flora Tristan's Legacy: Final Sketches for the preface and Dedication of her intended Book SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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