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Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women´s Liberation
Kate Weigand
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Description for Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women´s Liberation
paperback. Red Feminism provides a more complex view of the history of the modern women's movement, showing how key Communist activists came to understand gender, sexism, and race as central components of culture, economics, and politics in American society. Series: Reconfiguring American Political History. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFK; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
Drawing on substantial new research, Red Feminism traces the development of a distinctive Communist strain of American feminism from its troubled beginnings in the 1930s, through its rapid growth in the Congress of American Women during the early years of the Cold War, to its culmination in Communist Party circles of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The author argues persuasively that, despite the devastating effects of anti-Communism and Stalinism on the progressive Left of the 1950s, Communist feminists such as Susan B. Anthony II, Betty Millard, and Eleanor Flexner managed to sustain many important elements of their work ... Read more
Drawing on substantial new research, Red Feminism traces the development of a distinctive Communist strain of American feminism from its troubled beginnings in the 1930s, through its rapid growth in the Congress of American Women during the early years of the Cold War, to its culmination in Communist Party circles of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The author argues persuasively that, despite the devastating effects of anti-Communism and Stalinism on the progressive Left of the 1950s, Communist feminists such as Susan B. Anthony II, Betty Millard, and Eleanor Flexner managed to sustain many important elements of their work ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Reconfiguring American Political History
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801871115
SKU
V9780801871115
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About Kate Weigand
Kate Weigand is an archivist at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and teaches courses in U.S. history and women's studies.
Reviews for Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women´s Liberation
Richly detailed... It will appeal to general readers interested in the history of U.S. progressive movements and women's history. Publishers Weekly The gulf between first- and second-wave feminism seems less broad thanks to this thoughtful analysis of women's activism with the Communist Party U.S.A. between World War II and the mid-1950s... An important supplement to standard histories of American feminism. ... Read more