Female Consciousness and Collective Action: The Case of Barcelona, 1910-1918

Kaplan, Temma

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“…As a consequence, some evidence is presented that 'everyday life became a political process, and that through that process women's awareness grew'. [15] What is less clear is whether even these examples constituted any more than a glimpse at the possibility of a politics of consumption. Can any of these women consumers' protests during the First World War be termed a politics of consumption?…”

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“…Kaplan promotes a social vision embodying profoundly radical political implications'. [21] Together, these interpretations of various wartime cost of living protests show that consumption became a political issue in this period and in so doing legitimised women's interventions in the public world, but only the Melbourne example suggests the short-lived possibility of a politics of consumption. It is therefore noteworthy for this study of British socialist women that both Adela Pankhurst and Jennie Baines, significant players in the Australian protests, shared a formative experience of British socialism through their membership of the Independent Labour Party (ILP).…”

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Negotiating the boundaries of the domestic: British socialist women and the politics of consumption

Hunt

2000

Women's History Review

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Historically, socialist strategy has privileged production over consumption, yet consumption was a space in which socialist women could have constructed a woman-focused politics. This article discusses the possibility of a politics of consumption where consumption provided the focus for overt political demands around which consumer-centred tactics were developed. It explores an attempt by British socialist women to create a politics of consumption around shopping for food. Although Margaretta Hicks and the National Women's Council of the British Socialist Party ultimately failed to reorder socialist priorities, they did try to build a politics of consumption in the years 1912 to 1915. Their significance was to imagine one way in which the border between the 'domestic' and the 'political' could be dissolved so that consumption and production could be recognised as complementary and equally necessary spheres of socialist politics.

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Negotiating the boundaries of the domestic: British socialist women and the politics of consumption

Hunt

2000

Women's History Review

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“…As well as the home, the neighborhood encompassed the streets, shops, and marketplaces where shared routines could bind women together in loose networks and facilitate collective action. 13 The neighborhood was therefore where the politicization of the food supply and shopping enabled organized women to reach out to housewives hitherto untouched by any kind of politics. Moreover, it provided the catalyst for such women to take action themselves.…”

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The Politics of Food and Women's Neighborhood Activism in First World War Britain

Hunt

2010

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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In 1917 and 1918 violent cost-of-living protests, largely peopled by poor urban housewives, erupted across the world. Although Britain did not experience such dramatic events, a women's politics of food can be found in local neighborhoods that touched the lives of unorganized housewives on the wartime home front. The new local committees created to defend consumer interests in the face of food shortages proved to be permeable to some women, particularly those who already had some experience with women's politics. However, limits were placed on this participation and on the self-organization of housewives by the ambiguous understanding of who constituted a consumer and thus who could speak for the ordinary housewife as she battled the food queues. By exploring the women's politics of food at a local level, it is argued that working-class women's participation in Food Vigilance Committees or in local boycotts may have had longer lasting effects in Britain than the more dramatic cost-of-living actions elsewhere.

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“…This may even include taking on the state when it impedes their day-to-day activities. Kaplan has extended this analysis to women's participation in grassroots movements within contemporary Latin America" (Stephen 1997: 10-11; see also Kaplan 1982).…”

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Some Strategies for Left Feminists (and Their Male Allies) in the Age of Obama

Eisenstein

2009

Socialism and Democracy

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Female Consciousness and Collective Action: The Case of Barcelona, 1910-1918

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Negotiating the boundaries of the domestic: British socialist women and the politics of consumption

Negotiating the boundaries of the domestic: British socialist women and the politics of consumption

The Politics of Food and Women's Neighborhood Activism in First World War Britain

Some Strategies for Left Feminists (and Their Male Allies) in the Age of Obama

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