Abstract
More than any other Frenchwoman of her era, Aline Valette (1850–1899) achieved positions of leadership in both socialism and feminism. Linking her politics with evolutionary biology, Valette promoted a theory called ‘sexualism’ that promised to reorder societal priorities in favor of mothers and children. Five years before the famous all-woman daily La Fronde appeared, Valette founded L'Harmonie sociale, where she publicized the plight of women workers and promoted her political ideas. This study revises previous interpretations of Valette that have tended to dismiss both her socialism and her feminism, because she reached across class lines and ‘glorified to the extreme’ women's traditional motherly roles.
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