Making Socialists : Mary Bridges Adams and the Fight for Knowledge and Power, 1855–1939
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| Title: | Making Socialists : Mary Bridges Adams and the Fight for Knowledge and Power, 1855–1939 |
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| Description: | Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history. More than a local politician, Mary Bridges Adams was among the dynamic late nineteenth-century women activists who sought to transform government policy through socialist initiatives, with the ultimate (utopian) aim of creating a social nation. The author has assembled a thorough range of sources, including new materials that will bring fresh insights to this biography and more generally to Labour Party and socialist historiography, well-studied topics. The people Adams knew and the circles in which she travelled are particularly attractive features of this book. Foes thought her an awful woman: friends like George Bernard Shaw remembered the power of her oratory. Placed against the circumstances in which she lived and presented as part of a militant and anti-capitalist tradition within labour history, her life story contributes to new ways of seeing both socialist and feminist politics. |
| Authors: | Jane Martin |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Socialists--Great Britain--Biography, Women socialists--Great Britain--Biography, Women political activists--Great Britain--Biography, Political activists--Great Britain--Biography |
| Categories: | EDUCATION / History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history. More than a local politician, Mary Bridges Adams was among the dynamic late nineteenth-century women activists who sought to transform government policy through socialist initiatives, with the ultimate (utopian) aim of creating a social nation. The author has assembled a thorough range of sources, including new materials that will bring fresh insights to this biography and more generally to Labour Party and socialist historiography, well-studied topics. The people Adams knew and the circles in which she travelled are particularly attractive features of this book. Foes thought her an awful woman: friends like George Bernard Shaw remembered the power of her oratory. Placed against the circumstances in which she lived and presented as part of a militant and anti-capitalist tradition within labour history, her life story contributes to new ways of seeing both socialist and feminist politics. |
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| ISBN: | 9780719076909 9780719089947 9781526130464 |
