Gendering radicalism : women and communism in twentieth-century California /

Gendering radicalism : women and communism in twentieth-century California / Beth Slutsky.

"In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a ca...

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Main Author: Slutsky, Beth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Series:Women in the West.
Subjects:
Whitney, Anita, > 1867-1955.
Healey, Dorothy, > 1914-2006.
Alexander, Kendra, > 1946-1993.
Communist Party of the United States of America (Calif.) > History.
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 > Politics and government > 20th century.
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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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