Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical
By (Author) Steve J. Shone
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
3rd March 2022
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Political activism / Political engagement
Gender studies: women and girls
Trade unions
Feminism and feminist theory
331.478092
Physical Properties
Hardback
154
Width 163mm, Height 237mm, Spine 16mm
367g
Description
Rose 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 Summerfields contributions to radical thought, documenting the substantial scope of her contributions to womens rights activism in New South Wales in the 1890's, a topic that has previously been almost completely ignored.
Reviews
Stories like that of Rose Summerfield sorely need to be told, both to connect us to the insights of women struggling against injustice in the past and to empower us for the struggles of the present. Thanks to Steve Shone for the hard work involved in doing so!
Written with wonderful clarity, confidence and accuracy, this book stands as a fine testament to the remarkable life and times of Rose Summerfield. For those who have yet to be acquainted with this highly original activist and radical thinker I can think of no finer introduction. For those who have engaged with existing works on Summerfield, I have every confidence that you stand to gain a great deal from the original depth and historical rigour that Steve J. Shone brings to his subject. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, for those who have taken up the challenge to confront the social and spatial injustices of our time, please read this book! The energy and critical insight that Rose brought to the world in both thought and deed still have so much to inspire and illuminate our contemporary struggles for emancipation and freedom. For these reasons, and many more besides, I cannot recommend Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical highly enough.
Author Bio
Steve J. Shone is independent scholar.
