{"product_id":"lady-insurrectionists-isbn-9781836741909","title":"Lady Insurrectionists","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe women who led Britain’s first mass democratic movement – decades before the Suffragettes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLady Insurrectionists\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the iconoclastic women who helped ignite Chartism, the largest democratic movement of the nineteenth century. In this ground-breaking history, Judy Cox brings to life the radical voices of women who refused to be sidelined – figures like the ‘Red-Hot Radical’ poet Eliza Cook, Quaker abolitionist Elizabeth Pease and the electrifying Chartist speaker Mary Ann Walker. Far from being passive auxiliaries, these women were insurrectionists in thought and action – speaking from platforms, organising strikes, boycotts and petitions, and demanding political rights as workers, women and democrats. At a time when the vote was restricted to a privileged few, they demanded more – and did so on their own terms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a bold and necessary rewriting of British radical history. Cox dismantles the myth that feminism began with middle-class suffragists, revealing how working-class women forged a radical politics that defied the gender and social conventions of their age. Lady Insurrectionists restores these women to their rightful place at the heart of the fight for mass democracy and the People's Charter – and shows how their legacy continues to shape struggles for justice today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a story of women fighting at barricades, of women theorizing capitalism, of women robbing trains and women smuggling weapons to fight the Tsar. They are the true foremothers of Feminism for the 99%\" - Tithi Bhattacharya, co-author Feminism for the 99%Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One, The ‘Hen Chartists’ take Flight\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘The Apostle of Progress’ Frances Wright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two, Radical Foremothers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘White Slavery’ and the Radical Poetics of Mary Hutton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three, Insurrection, 1839: ‘The Time of War’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Bid the outraged world, be free!’: Making Common Cause with Elizabeth Pease and Anne Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four, General Strike, 1842: ‘Every woman ought to be a politician’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ‘Red-Hot Radical’ Eliza Cook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five, Revolution, 1848: ‘Breaking the chains of women’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Nationalism, Chartism and the ‘Lady Insurrectionist’ Sarah Theobald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six, Resistance, 1850s: ‘The strong-minded women of the party’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChartism and Communism in the life of Helen Macfarlane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven, Suffrage, 1866: ‘Dangerous, go-ahead, revolutionary women’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Many Faces of Eliza Lynn Linton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight, Chartist Afterlives: ‘Thanks to my mother’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Political Journeys of Sarah Parker Remond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003eJudy Cox\u003c\/b\u003e is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eRebellious Daughters of History\u003c\/i\u003e, a group biography that grew out of daily Facebook posts during lockdown. Her other books are \u003ci\u003eWilliam Blake: The Scourge of Tyrants \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Women’s Revolution: Russia 1905-1917\u003c\/i\u003e. She has a History PhD from the University of Leeds and lives in west Yorkshire.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532161954021,"sku":"NP9781836741909","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781836741909.jpg?v=1773182890","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/lady-insurrectionists-isbn-9781836741909","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}