BEBEL Augustus - Woman and Socialism [1907].

Krakow 1907, rebound at the National Printing House. 14x21 cm, pp (7), half cloth bookbinding. Good condition (foreign dedication on the front pastedown, single minor soiling).

Second edition of thebest known work by August Bebel (1840-1913), one of the founders and long-time leader of German Social Democracy. Contents include: Woman as a sexual being. Secrets of marriage. Sex ratio. Prostitution as a social device, necessary in the bourgeois world. A woman's earning position. Her spiritual abilities. Darwinism and the state of society. The legalposition of woman and her position in relation to politics. The state and society. The socialist system. Woman in the future.