Not just a Woman. The Agitation Tour in the US and the Proletarian Feminism of Eleanor Marx

Roberta Ferrari

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-2752/15010

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Roberta Ferrari University of Bologna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7825-2561

Roberta Ferrari holds a PhD in History of Political Thought and is a teaching tutor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna. Her main research interests concern late Victorian and early 20th century England, Ireland and European Socialism, the birth of the welfare state and planning in the 1930s in Europe, the Soviet Union and the United States. He also works on feminist and Marxist theory.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-2752/15010

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Eleanor Marx, Socialism, Feminism, Organization, American Workers Movement

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On 31 August 1886 Eleanor Marx left Liverpool for Chicago for a trip that would be the perfect occasion to sharpen her feminist thought. Inquiring the American workers movement and women condition, Eleanor found the problem of the day. “How should woman organize?” became the crucial question of her socialist activism among women but also among men. The United States were the ground of an essential transformation of socialist politics, where sex, class and race were already political weapons the workers movement had to learn to use for their own freedom.

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