Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Fifteen
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and husbands, and that it was therefore quite unnecessary for them to enjoy<br />
formal political rights. This statement from a fellow Benthamite and utilitarian<br />
alarmed Thompson and his friend and collaborator, the Irish feminist<br />
philosopher, Anna Wheeler. The book champions not just political, but<br />
also civil rights for women: equitable laws, educational opportunities, reform<br />
of marriage customs, and so on. At the same time it also recommends<br />
the abolition of the system of ‘individual competition’ – in other words,<br />
capitalism – and its replacement with the system of ‘mutual cooperation.’<br />
For these reasons, the Appeal has been referred to as ‘the first detailed statement<br />
of socialist feminism’.<br />
Thompson (1785–1833), a supporter of Owen and the co-operative<br />
movement, a socialist and important writer on political economy wrote this<br />
book, as fully acknowledged in his introductory letter, together with his<br />
friend ‘Mrs Wheeler’, who provided ‘those bolder and more comprehensive<br />
views which perhaps can only be elicited by concentration of the mind on<br />
one darling though terrific theme’. Anna Wheeler (1785–1848) was born<br />
into the Anglo-Irish gentry, got married aged fifteen, and left her drunken<br />
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