Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-088125-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

A collection of essay, addresses, and magazine articles by the early-twentieth-century attorney and activist illuminate her militant views on feminism, suffrage, pacifism, and socialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Blanche Wiesen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part One Crystal Eastman on Women

- Feminist Theory and Program

- Mother-Worship

- Birth Control in the Feminist Program

- Feminism: A Statement Read at the First Feminist Congress in the United States

- Practical Feminism

- Now We Can Begin 52

- Alice Paul's Convention 57

- Personalities and Powers: Alice Paul 63

- Political Equality League: Report on the Wisconsin Suffrage Campaign 66

- 1848--1923 70

- CREATING FEMINIST LIFE-STYLES

- Short Hair and Short Skirts 74 Marriage under Two Roofs 76

- Bed-Makers and Bosses 83 Boys and Girls 85

- Bertrand Russell on Bringing Up Children: An Interview with the Noted Author of Education and the Good Life 88

- Schoolgirl Fiction for To-day 93

- What Shall We Do with the Woman's Page? 96

- WOMAN'S PLACE-BEYOND THE HOME

- ls Woman's Place the Home? 99

- Lady Rhondda Contends That Women of Leisure

- Are "Menace": A Public Debate between Lady Rhondda and G. K. Chesterton 102

- Personalities and Powers: Anna Wickham 105 Caroline Haslett and the Women Engineers 1 09 Who Is Dora Black? 114

- Lind bergh's Mother 119

- Mrs. Pankhurst Comes Back as Candidate for Parliament I 2 r

- A FEMINIST CONCEPTION OF CRIMINAL LAW

- Protection of Children r 2 5

- Justice for the Prostitute-Lady Astor's Bill r 28

- ORGANIZING AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST FEMINIST FUTURE

- Suffragists Ten Years After I 32 Keeping Abreast of the Times I 35 A Matter of Emphasis r 36

- Britain 's Labor Women r 39

- The New British Commonwealth League 143 Socialist Women of Eighteen Countries Meet at

- Marseilles 146

- THERE IS NO PROTECTION WITHOUT EQUALITY

- An Acid Test for Suffragists 154 Equality or Protection 156 Feminists Must Fight 160

- English Feminists and Special Labor Laws for Women 161

- International Co-operation 165

- Protective Legislation in England 170

- London Letter-The Married Teacher 172

- British Women Fire the First Gun in Their Second Suffrage Battle 177

- British Women Condemn Sex Restrictions in Industry 182

- Woman's Party Accepts Paris Congress Repulse as Spur to a World-Wide Feminist Movement 186

- The Great Rejection: Part I 195 The Great Rejection: Part II 199 · The Great Rejection: Part III 207

- Recent Developments in England 2 1 2

- What Is Real Protection? 2 1 5 Women, Rights and Privileges 220

- Letter to the Editor of Time and Tide 223

- Equalitarian vs. Reformer 225

- Part Two Crystal Eastman On Revolution

- AGAINST IMPERIAL WARFARE: THE WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY AND THE AMERICAN UNION AGAINST MILITARISM

- To Make War Unthinkable 235

- Now I Dare To Do It: An Interview with Dr. Aletta Jacobs 237

- A Platform of Real Preparedness 24 1

- Suggestions for 1916-1917 247 War and Peace 252

- Letter, Crystal Eastman to Emily Greene Balch, 14 June 1917 254

- AUAM Press Release 261

- Our War Record: A Plea for Tolerance 264 A Program for Voting Women 266

- FROM REFORM TO SOCIALIST REVOLUTION

- Work-Accidents and Employers' Liability 269 The Three Essentials for Accident Prevention 280 Edi torials, Introductory Issue of The Liberator 290 The Socialist Vote 293

- Aeroplanes and Jails 294

- Unsigned Editorials, The Liberator, February 1919 296

- A League of Which Nations? 296

- Political Prisoners 297

- The Allied Intervention in Russia and Hungary 298

- The Mooney Congress 302 In Communist Hungary British Labor Is Moving The Workers of the Clyde

- The Socialist Party Convention 349

- The British Labour Party Conference 357

- APPENDIX: CONTEMPORARY ARTICLES ABOUT CRYSTAL EASTMAN

- Portia Appointed by the Governor. 358 Crystal Eastman in Hungary 367

- Elisabeth Smith: Feminist For Equality, Not "Women As Women" 368

- Freda Kirchwey: Crystal Eastman 371

- Index 377

Über Autor(innen)

Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume I: The Early Years, 1884-1933; Volume II: The Defining Years, 1933-1938; and Volume III: The War Years and After, 1939-1962.