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Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women's rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women's efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women's emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.
Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s.
"It was 12 years ago when I moved to Mexico, leaving my comfortable, familiar life and community, driving by myself to start a new life in a foreign country. Some sort of bravado or naivete or, as my friends would say later, courage, allowed me to pooh-pooh concerns about all the unknowns- culture, language, customs-and head off nonetheless."And so begins one of the more than two dozen essays in this anthology, written by "regular" women about their "regular" lives and how they decided to change everything and move to Mexico. In simple, engaging words straight from the heart, the contributors to Why We Left share their plans and preparations, hardships and challenges, joys and satisfactions as their journeys to new lives in Mexico unfold.
The rationale stated for studying radical women of Latin America is first to throw light on the development of dictatorship and authoritarianism, second to transcend the stereotype of inherently violent men and inherently peaceful women, and finally to demonstrate that there is no automatic sisterhood among women even of the same class and ethnicity. Brief chronologies of three countries each in Central and South America open the two sections. The contributors are historians and political scientists primarily from the US. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Only the American right has ever really recognised the potency of the American left. Now, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones fully details the left's numerous achievements, including the welfare state, opposing militarism, reshaping of American culture, black rights a
A reference guide to the history of radical and progressive movements in America. More than 600 articles cover key figures, events, issues, organizations, and concepts, including Thomas Paine, Black Panther Party, Emma Goldman, Peace Movements, Students for a Democratic Society.
Between 1900 and 1920 women were responsible for much of the social and political activity in the United States. Recent work by feminist historians has revealed that women were interested in a broad range of issues at the turn of the twentieth century. The American Left addressed such issues as workers' rights, labor conditions, birth control, suffrage, and socialism. Mother Jones, Kate Richards O'Hare, Margaret Sanger, and Emma Goldman were among the most prominent women in the Left. They found that the Left provided them with forums as writers, speakers, and demonstrators. Jones was critical of women who worked outside the home, although their income often was necessary for the family's survival. Jones did not support woman suffrage, yet she bemoaned the plight of female workers who needed the ballot to improve their working conditions. Like Jones, Kate Richards O'Hare believed that a woman's responsibility was to remain at home with her children. However, O'Hare supported woman suffrage because she believed that women's votes could help usher in socialism. O'Hare supported the Socialist party unflinchingly. Margaret Sanger began her political career as a brash radical. When Sanger no longer found the Left useful in her fight for accessible birth control, she sought out influential conservatives to support her work. Emma Goldman devoted her life to political and social causes. Goldman's primary interest was anarchism, but she also supported such causes as accessible birth control. Goldman's activities brought her into contact with Sanger and O'Hare. As the American Left splintered over the United States' entry into the war, Jones, O'Hare, Sanger, and Goldman women found that many of their opinions changed. A careful examination of speeches, personal letters, essays, and autobiographies reveals how their opinions, activities, and tactics developed and changed during the first two decades of this century.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Michael Kazin—one of the most respected historians of the American left working today—tells a new history of the movements that, while not fully succeeding on their own terms, nonetheless made lasting contributions to American society. Among these culture shaping events are the fight for equal opportunity for women, racial minorities, and homosexuals; the celebration of sexual pleasure; the inclusion of multiculturalism in the media and school curricula; and the creation of books and films with altruistic and anti-authoritarian messages. Deeply informed, judicious and impassioned, and superbly written, this is an essential book for our times and for anyone seeking to understand our political history and the people who made it.
The first comprehensive reference book on radicalism in the United States from the Civil War to the present, this work fills serious gaps in basic reference materials on American politics, labor, and culture by focusing on radicals rather than reformers. Merging previously unutilized sourcessuch as oral history with the wealth of insight available from feminist, ethnic, racial studies and popular culture analysis as well as traditional scholarly approaches, their efforts retrieved a hitherto inaccesible history.