Description
Book SynopsisRose Summerfield: Australian Radical outlines the largely forgotten achievements of this overlooked labor union activist and socialist sympathetic to anarchist, feminist, and secularist ideas; a dynamic speaker, who eventually emigrated to Paraguay to live on a utopian commune called New Australia. In this first book-length study of Summerfield, Shone supplements existing scholarship with new information, revealing to full extent Summerfield’s contributions to radical thought, documenting the substantial scope of her contributions to women’s rights activism in New South Wales in the 1890's, a topic that has previously been almost completely ignored.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1: Labor Activist
Chapter 2: Campaigner for Women’s Rights
Chapter 3: Freethinker and Political Theorist
Chapter 4: A Major Thinker, Mischaracterized and Misunderstood
Chapter 5: Settler in Paraguay
Conclusion: Rose Summerfield, Advocate for Human Dignity
