Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical

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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 Cosme. In this first book-length study of Summerfield, Shone supplements existing scholarship with new information, revealing to a much fuller 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 1890s, a topic that has previously been almost completely ignored. Cover Contents List of Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction Labor Activist Campaigner for Women’s Rights Freethinker and Political Theorist A Major Thinker, Mischaracterized and Misunderstood Settler in Paraguay Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author