SNOWDEN, Ethel. [Mrs. Ethel Snowden].
The Feminist Movement.
London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press , [1913].
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"The chief purpose of feminists through all the years, and at the present time, is the achievement of freedom for womanhood and its equality of the opportunity of manhood": Rare second edition of Ethel Snowden's The Feminist Movement
Second edition of Ethel Snowden's account of the global 19th century feminist movement. Octavo, original publisher's binding with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece portrait of the author, bibliography and index at rear. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
British socialist, human rights activist, and feminist politician Ethel Snowden was an active member of the Temperance Society, Independent Labour Party, and one of the national speakers for the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. The wife of prominent Labour Party politician Philip Snowden, she was one of the leading campaigners for women's suffrage before the First World War, then founding The Women's Peace Crusade to oppose the war and call for a negotiated peace. Snowden decried the concentration on such things as dresses, jewels and cake recipes and wrote "The Woman Socialist" in 1907 which advocated state control of marriage, joint title by women to the housekeeping money, and a state salary for mothers; she also wanted housekeeping organized collectively in each street and declared that under socialism women would have "no need to paint face and tint hair." Her strong views seemed to influence her husband, although Snowden was always a 'suffragist' and never endorsed the violent tactics of the suffragettes.
The Feminist Movement.
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