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.
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...
“Revolutionary Desire: Redefining the Politics of Sexuality of American Radicals, 1919–1945.” In Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past, ed. Kathleen Kennedy, 273–302. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003. ———.
Millions of Americans dream about living in Mexico - and millions more do! From Oaxaca to Baja, Guanajuato to Puerto Vallarta, Lake Chapala to the Yucatan, more than two dozen women from all over Mexico share their stories in this new book.
This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt.
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 band of political activists, heavily influenced by the counterculture, gathered on New Year's Eve at an East Village apartment to discuss the American political scene. Among those present were new friends Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin ...
Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920
' In contrast to most other accounts of this subject, the SDS and white male radicals are taken out of the center of the story and placed more toward its margins.
Grimké in Kathryn Kish Sklar, Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830–1870: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford/St Martins, 2000), 222. There is also the example of Ernestine Rose, a Jewish freethinker ...