03308cam a22004334a 4500 redfeminismameri0000weig CaSfIA 20250731131922.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 000328s2001 mdua ob 001 0 eng 00008874 0801864895 (hc : acid-free paper) : 9780801864896 (OCoLC)1194912693 DLC DLC UKM CaSfIA pcc n-us--- HX546 .W35 2001 324.273/75/082 21 Weigand, Kate, 1965- Red feminism : American communism and the making of women's liberation / Kate Weigand. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages : illustrations) Reconfiguring American political history Reconfiguring American political history Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Old left women, the U.S. women's movement, and the legacy of anti-communism -- I. Foundations. Building unity amidst diversity: Ethnicity, race, and gender in the early years of American communism -- The Mary Inman controversy and the (re)construction of the woman question, 1936-1945 -- The congress of American women: Catalyst for progressive feminsim - II. Transformations. Women's work is never done: Communists' evolving approach to the woman question, 1945-1956 -- Claudia Jones and the synthesis of gender, race, and class -- Communist culture and the politicization of personal life -- III. Connections. Old left feminism, the second wave, and beyond. Contains primary source material "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." - Provided by publisher Women and communism United States History 20th century. Women in politics United States History 20th century. Women's rights United States History 20th century. United States Politics and government 20th century. (NOBLE)26598 United States Social conditions 20th century. https://archive.org/details/redfeminismameri0000weig Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL15522870M Additional information and access via Open Library gaaagpl PANO PANO Stacks 4 324.273 W34R book 31867000827225 56.00 1 nonreference holdable circulating visible Available redfeminismameri0000weig ark:/13960/t4nm2824w