| Mystics Against Empire: Margaret and James Cousins, 1873-1956 Contributor(s): Candy, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472466977 ISBN-13: 9781472466976 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2028 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of December 31, 2028 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - General |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History |
| Physical Information: 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
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| Publisher Description: This book traces the careers of Margaret and James Cousins, mystical revolutionaries who were key players in some of the most important cultural and political events of the first half of the twentieth century. Margaret Cousins (1878-1954), was a leading suffragist dynamo and radical feminist revolutionary presence in the Irish cultural revival. Her husband, James Cousins (1873-1956), was a writer in the circle of Yeats and Joyce and a life-long nationalist and cosmopolitan activist. As suffragists in Ireland and England, the Cousins helped shape the feminist movement in both places, especially in their efforts to tie it to the international labour movement. Migrating to India during the first world war, for the next four decades they were at the helm of the feminist, musical, literary and educational wings of the Indian freedom movement alongside, and sometimes against, Gandhi. Few people were so intimately and so passionately involved in both movements of Irish and Indian decolonization and this dual biography demonstrates the intricate interconnectedness of a number of disparate histories: of empire; feminism; religion; gender and sexuality; culture; and anti-colonial nationalism. |