In the Company of Radical Women Writers Hennessy Rosemary
Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society's failures and injustices in the 1930s--a decade unnervingly similar to our ownIn the Company of Radical Women…
Specifikacia In the Company of Radical Women Writers Hennessy Rosemary
Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society's failures and injustices in the 1930s--a decade unnervingly similar to our ownIn the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers--Black, Jewish, and white--who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide urgent, thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental devastation.As Hennessy brilliantly shows, the documentary journalism and creative and biographical writings of Marvel Cooke,