Abstract (may include machine translation)
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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Cambridge History of Socialism |
Subtitle of host publication | Volume II |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 639-663 |
Number of pages | 25 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781108611107 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781108481359 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2022 |