Fabian Couples Feminist Issues

<p>In the three decades before the First World War the relationship between socialism and feminism was both curious and convoluted. Despite strong theoretical links between these ideologies class and sex seem to have inspired conflicting loyalties and opposing demands. In Britain the uniquely middle-class reform-minded Fabian Society might have been expected to bridge the gap between these movements. Yet between 1884 and 1914 the Fabian Society’s record on the woman question was highly inconsistent and at times overtly regressive. Originally published in 1987 this title looks at three of the most influential members Sidney Webb George Bernard Shaw and Hubert Bland and the women they were married to who were also active in the Society.</p>