Red Feminism

American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6489-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Reconfiguring American Political History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weigand, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Old Left Women, the U.S. Women's Movement, and the Legacy of Anti-Communism
Part I: Foundations
Chapter 1. Building Unity Amidst Diversity: Ethnicity, Race, and Gender in the Early Years of American Communism
Chapter 2. The Mary Inman Controversy and the (Re)Construction of the Woman Question, 1936–1945
Chapter 3. The Congress of American Women: Catalyst for Progressive Feminism
Part II: Transformations
Chapter 4. Women's Work Is Never done: Communists' Evolving Approach to the Woman Question, 1945–1956
Chapter 5. Claudia Jones and the Synthesis of Gender, Race, and Class
Chapter 6. Communist Culture and the Politicization of Personal Life
Part III: Connections
Chapter 7. Old Left Feminism, the Second Wave, and Beyond
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Weigand, Kate
Kate Weigand is an archivist at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and teaches courses in U.S. history and women's studies.