Carver, T. (2020). 'Mere Auxiliaries to the Movement': How Intellectual Biography Obscures Marx's and Engels's Gendered Political Partnerships. Hypatia, 33(4), 593-609. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12439 Peer reviewed version License (if available): Unspecified Link to published version (if available): 10.1111/hypa.12439 Link to publication record in Explore Bristol Research PDF-document This is the author accepted manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) is available online via Hypatia at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hypa.12439 . Please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher. University of Bristol - Explore Bristol Research General rights This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/red/research-policy/pure/user-guides/ebr-terms/ “Mere Auxiliaries to the Movement”<1>: How intellectual biography obscures Marx’s and Engels’s gendered political partnerships Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol, UK
[email protected] Abstract Four women have been conventionally framed as wives and/or mistresses and/or sexual partners in the biographical reception of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820- 1895) as heterosexual men. These women were Jenny Marx (née von Westphalen) (1814- 1881), Helene Demuth (“Lenchen”) (1820-1890), Mary Burns (1821-1863), and Lydia Burns (1827-1878). How exactly they appear in the few contemporary texts and rare images that survive is less interesting than the determination of subsequent biographers of the two “great men” to make these women fit a familiar genre, namely intellectual biography.