Socialism, Gender, and the Emancipation of Women

Susan Zimmermann*

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Visiting Highgate Cemetery in London in 1983, the centenary of the death of Karl Marx, feminist theologian and leftist peace activist Dorothee Sölle captured, in a beautiful poem, women’s ‘difficulties with chuck ʼn' freddy’. ‘[S]ocialism’, wrote Sölle, ' … i imagine / is a building with many apartments / and i pick a quarrel with you, guys / … / learning to think feminine / we will need to widen-expand / just like skirts / all your concepts / since we are always in peculiar circumstances-permanently expecting /….

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Cambridge History of Socialism
Subtitle of host publicationVolume II
PublisherCambridge University Press
Pages639-663
Number of pages25
ISBN (Electronic)9781108611107
ISBN (Print)9781108481359
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2022

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