Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation (Reconfiguring American Political History)
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Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation (Reconfiguring American Political History)

Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation (Reconfiguring American Political History)

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Kate Weigand (Author)  

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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 into the 1960s, when a new generation took up their cause and built an effective movement for women's liberation. 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. 7 Halftones, black and white CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning -No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Kate Weigand is an archivist at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and teaches courses in U.S. history and women's studies.
  • Contributor: Kate Weigand
  • Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780801871115
  • Number of Pages: 240
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x13mm
  • Packaged Weight: 340
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release Date: 2002-11-07
  • Series: Reconfiguring American Political History
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Kate Weigand is an archivist at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and teaches courses in U.S. history and women's studies.

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