Introduction: A Political Biography

Abstract

Beginning with a recapitulation of Flora Tristan’s short but tumultuous life from 1803 to 1844, the introduction explains that although now known as one of the foremost French predecessors to the feminist and socialist movement, historiographical analysis of her legacy in both labour and feminist history has been neglected to the extent that there is nothing on how Jules Puech became her first major historical biographer. The timely discovery of Flora Tristan in his papers has made it possible to enrich our knowledge of both their lives and their activism. By intertwining their lives beyond the grave and using material gleaned from generations of activists as historians, and historians as activists, the double biography reveals more about French history than the two separate lives.

In defense of a polyphonic sociology: Introducing female voices into the sociological canon

“…The second entails a type of immanent critique of canonical texts to identify the more or less implicit conceptions of women, femininity and gender relations (Sydie, 1994;Felski, 1995;Marshall;Witz, 2004;Chaboud-Rychter et al, 2014). The third set of approaches are linked to the sociology of knowledge, or an intellectual history, and emphasize the biographical and social dimensions of constructing theory, including the personal relationships of the canonical male theorists with women and other gender-related experiences (Gane, 1993;Ketler;Meja, 1993;Deegan, 1991;Cross, 2020;Harding, 2021). A fourth approach involves the dissemination and analysis of the thought of women authors who have been rendered invisible or erased from the history of sociological thought, with an emphasis on those who published between the 1830s and 1930s, such as Flora Tristán, Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams, Anna Julia Cooper, Beatrix Potter Webb, Marianne Weber, among others (for example, Lengermann; Niebrugge, 2007; Deegan, 1988b; Mata, 2014; Daflon; Sorj, 2021; Alcantara, 2021; Campos, 2021; Santana et al, 2021;Zanon et al, 2022).…”

Por uma sociologia polifônica: introduzindo vozes femininas no cânone sociológico

“…Sydie, 1994;Felski, 1995;Marshall;Witz, 2004;Chaboud-Rychter et al, 2014). Terceiro, abordagens ligadas à sociologia do conhecimento ou a uma história intelectual que enfatiza a dimensão biográfica e social da construção teórica, incluindo relações pessoais dos teóricos com as mulheres e outras experiências relativas a gênero (por ex., Gane, 1993;Ketler;Meja, 1993;Deegan, 1991;Cross, 2020;Harding, 2021). Uma quarta abordagem envolve a divulgação e análise do pensamento de autoras invisibilizadas ou apagadas da história do pensamento sociológico, com destaque para as que publicaram entre as décadas de 1830 e 1930, como é o caso de Flora Zanon et al, 2022).…”