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Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation
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Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation Hardcover - 2000

by Kate Weigand


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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.

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In 1946, THIRTY-YEAR-OLD SUSAN B. ANTHONY II, grandniece and namesake of the famous nineteenth-century suffragist and feminist, offered her assessment of gender relations in the United States at the time.

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  • Title Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation
  • Author Kate Weigand
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
  • Date November 16, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780801864896 / 0801864895
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 6.23 x 0.73 in (23.44 x 15.82 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, United States - Social conditions - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00008874
  • Dewey Decimal Code 324.273

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/01/2000, Page 682
  • Choice, 11/01/2001, Page 581
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/06/2000, Page 81
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2001, Page 147

About the author

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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