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[Women][Suffrage]
Wilkinson, Lily Gair. Revolutionary Socialism and the Woman's Movement. Edinburgh: Socialist Labour Party, [n.d. but 1910?]. 7 1/8” x 4 7/8”. Stapled wrappers. pp. 25, [7, publisher's ads]. Good plus: wrappers toned and partially separated but holding; tiny losses at spine tips, faint vertical crease throughout; small stains of pages 6 and 7.
Likely first edition of a short and vigorous tract on the social freedom of women, encouraging the Socialist Labour Party (“SLP”) to clarify its position on the feminist movement. Its author, Lily Gair Wilkinson, was an anarchist who was also published in “Mother Earth” as well as Margaret Sanger's “Woman Rebel.” In her introduction, she stated, “everywhere increasing numbers of women are beginning to feel this yoke—becoming conscious that they are born in bondage—and everywhere more and more are giving active signs that they can strive for freedom.” She found the SLP's need to clarify its position urgent “because the bourgeois feminists have received great support in their campaign from many reformists calling themselves Socialist, who pretending to serve the cause of women, serve that of the enemy instead.” She then laid out the principles of socialism followed by a section on the subjection of women. She next compared suffragism with socialism, pointing out where the two were in conflict and ultimately concluding that “emancipation from the power of the private owners of the means of production will be true emancipation for women.”
OCLC provides publication dates of 1909 and 1910 issued in either Glasgow or Edinburgh. We note that one of the Glasgow copies imaged online matches our front wrapper exactly, with the Edinburgh address crossed out, and the Glasgow address stamped underneath. The verso of the front wrapper, as well as both sides of the rear wrapper, are different on the Glasgow copy, and an Edinburgh address on the recto of the rear wrapper is also crossed out. We therefore think this copy is the first appearance of the work. OCLC locates one physical copy of this edition. A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought to 1940, p. 503.
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