Eleanor Rathbone

By: Johanna Alberti

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Paperback | 1 April 1996

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208 Pages

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"Eleanor Rathbone" is the first book in the series "Women of Ideas". This, and succeeding volumes will: provide succinct introductions to the ideas of women who have been recognized as major theorists; make the work of major women of ideas accessible to students and those who wish to know more; appraise and reappraise the work of neglected women of ideas and give them a higher profile; and provide a full bibliography of its subject's writings, where they are easily available. In this book Johanna Alberti explores the political and intellectual context in which Eleanor Rathbone wrote, the impact of her ideas on feminist theory today, and on the women with whom she lived and worked. She traces Rathbone's life and ideas as a political activist (the only suffragist to become an MP in UK), and as an academic: her advocacy of child benefit; her wide-ranging analysis of contemporary economic and social structures; her focus on the definition and politicization of the myth of the family; the impact of race and imperialism; and the development of her wider thinking on gender - particularly her move from an equality-based analysis to one of gender difference.

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`Alberti utilizes Rathbone's life and work to elucidate major historical debates concerning conflicting notions of feminism, British feminist involvement in maintaining colonial hegemony, and the relationship between women and patriotism' - Journal of Women's History `Alberti's closing sentence is worth quoting: "As we move into the future, her tireless determination and her faith in the contribution which women can make to society are a welcome antidote to the discourses of cynicism and despair". I can't argue with that. Bravo to Eleanor Rathbone and to the accomplished interpreter of her ideas, Johanna Alberti!' - Women's Philosophy Review

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