This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France'srevolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection.Examining the period from the early 1860s through that century's end, Carolyn J.Eichner investigates how radical women developed critiques of gender, class, andreligious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune era, how these ideologies emergedas a plurality of feminist socialisms within the revolution, and how these variedpolitics subsequently affected fin-de-si cle gender and class relations. Shefocuses on three distinctly dissimilar revolutionary women leaders who exemplifymultiple competing and complementary feminist socialisms: Andre Leo, ElisabethDmitrieff, and Paule Mink. Leo theorized and educated through journalism andfiction, Dmitrieff organized institutional power for working-class women, and Minkagitated crowds to create an egalitarian socialist world. Each woman forged her ownpath to gender equality and social justice.