Gendering Radicalism : Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California /

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"An examination of how American leftist radicalism was experienced in a gendered and raced context through the lives of three women (Charlotte Anita Whitney, Dorothy Ray Healey, and Kendra Harris Alexander) who joined and led the California branches of the Communist Party from 1919 to 1992"...

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Main Author: Slutsky, Beth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Whitney, Anita, > 1867-1955.
Healey, Dorothy, > 1914-2006.
Alexander, Kendra, > 1946-1993.
Communist Party of the United States of America (Calif.)
Communist Party of the United States of America (Calif.) > History.
Women radicals.
Women political activists.
Women communists.
Sex role > Political aspects.
Politics and government.
Intergenerational relations > Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism & Socialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Femmes communistes > Californie > Biographies.
Radicales > Californie > Biographies.
Femmes activistes > Californie > Biographies.
Rôle selon le sexe > Aspect politique > Californie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Relations entre generations > Aspect politique > Californie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Women communists > California > Biography.
Women radicals > California > Biography.
Women political activists > California > Biography.
Sex role > Political aspects > California > History > 20th century.
Intergenerational relations > Political aspects > California > History > 20th century.
California.
Californie > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
California > Politics and government > 20th century.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Three Generations of American Communist Women
  • 2. Parlor Pink Turned Soapbox Red : Charlotte Anita Whitney, the American Communist Matriarch, 1867-1955
  • 3. Red Queen of the West : Dorothy Ray Healey and the Grounding of California's Old Left, 1914-2006
  • 4. The New Old Left : Kendra Harris Alexander, 1946-1993
  • 5. American Communism after Three Generations.

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