New in Paperback

Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution

Edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Reissue of a classic collection of writings by an influential feminist thinker.
Edited by eminent women's historian and biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook.

New in Paperback

Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution

Edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Description

A collection of essay, addresses, and magazine articles by the early-twentieth-century attorney and activist illuminate her militant views on feminism, suffrage, pacifism, and socialism.

New in Paperback

Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution

Edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Introduction
Part One Crystal Eastman on Women

Feminist Theory and Program
Mother-Worship
Birth Control in the Feminist Program
Feminism: A Statement Read at the First Feminist Congress in the United States
Practical Feminism
Now We Can Begin 52
Alice Paul's Convention 57
Personalities and Powers: Alice Paul 63
Political Equality League: Report on the Wisconsin Suffrage Campaign 66
1848--1923 70

CREATING FEMINIST LIFE-STYLES
Short Hair and Short Skirts 74 Marriage under Two Roofs 76
Bed-Makers and Bosses 83 Boys and Girls 85
Bertrand Russell on Bringing Up Children: An Interview with the Noted Author of Education and the Good Life 88
Schoolgirl Fiction for To-day 93
What Shall We Do with the Woman's Page? 96

WOMAN'S PLACE-BEYOND THE HOME
ls Woman's Place the Home? 99
Lady Rhondda Contends That Women of Leisure
Are "Menace": A Public Debate between Lady Rhondda and G. K. Chesterton 102
Personalities and Powers: Anna Wickham 105 Caroline Haslett and the Women Engineers 1 09 Who Is Dora Black? 114
Lind bergh's Mother 119
Mrs. Pankhurst Comes Back as Candidate for Parliament I 2 r

A FEMINIST CONCEPTION OF CRIMINAL LAW
Protection of Children r 2 5
Justice for the Prostitute-Lady Astor's Bill r 28

ORGANIZING AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST FEMINIST FUTURE
Suffragists Ten Years After I 32 Keeping Abreast of the Times I 35 A Matter of Emphasis r 36
Britain 's Labor Women r 39
The New British Commonwealth League 143 Socialist Women of Eighteen Countries Meet at
Marseilles 146
THERE IS NO PROTECTION WITHOUT EQUALITY
An Acid Test for Suffragists 154 Equality or Protection 156 Feminists Must Fight 160
English Feminists and Special Labor Laws for Women 161
International Co-operation 165
Protective Legislation in England 170
London Letter-The Married Teacher 172
British Women Fire the First Gun in Their Second Suffrage Battle 177
British Women Condemn Sex Restrictions in Industry 182
Woman's Party Accepts Paris Congress Repulse as Spur to a World-Wide Feminist Movement 186
The Great Rejection: Part I 195 The Great Rejection: Part II 199 · The Great Rejection: Part III 207
Recent Developments in England 2 1 2
What Is Real Protection? 2 1 5 Women, Rights and Privileges 220
Letter to the Editor of Time and Tide 223
Equalitarian vs. Reformer 225

Part Two Crystal Eastman On Revolution
AGAINST IMPERIAL WARFARE: THE WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY AND THE AMERICAN UNION AGAINST MILITARISM
To Make War Unthinkable 235
Now I Dare To Do It: An Interview with Dr. Aletta Jacobs 237
A Platform of Real Preparedness 24 1
Suggestions for 1916-1917 247 War and Peace 252
Letter, Crystal Eastman to Emily Greene Balch, 14 June 1917 254
AUAM Press Release 261
Our War Record: A Plea for Tolerance 264 A Program for Voting Women 266

FROM REFORM TO SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
Work-Accidents and Employers' Liability 269 The Three Essentials for Accident Prevention 280 Edi torials, Introductory Issue of The Liberator 290 The Socialist Vote 293
Aeroplanes and Jails 294
Unsigned Editorials, The Liberator, February 1919 296
A League of Which Nations? 296
Political Prisoners 297
The Allied Intervention in Russia and Hungary 298

The Mooney Congress 302 In Communist Hungary British Labor Is Moving The Workers of the Clyde
The Socialist Party Convention 349
The British Labour Party Conference 357

APPENDIX: CONTEMPORARY ARTICLES ABOUT CRYSTAL EASTMAN
Portia Appointed by the Governor . . . 358 Crystal Eastman in Hungary 367
Elisabeth Smith: Feminist For Equality, Not "Women As Women" 368
Freda Kirchwey: Crystal Eastman 371
Index 377

New in Paperback

Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution

Edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Author Information

Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume I: The Early Years, 1884-1933; Volume II: The Defining Years, 1933-1938; and Volume III: The War Years and After, 1939-1962.

New in Paperback

Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution

Edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Reviews and Awards

"A masterful and sensitive presentation of one of the major thinkers of the Progressive Movement and one of the most significant theoreticians of the New Feminism....It is an invaluable collection for anyone interested in the evolution of American radicalism, in feminism and women's history, in the Progressive Movement and its fate in the 1920s." -- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, University of Michigan

"Every serious feminist and everyone concerned with human rights will want to read this book. Its issues are burningly alive today, and the history it traces acutely relevant to our moment. Above all, Crystal Eastman is here restored to us, another 'lost' fore-sister whose noble and articulate spirit is a life-transfusion for our own struggles." -- Adrienne Rich

"Thanks to the work of Blanche Wiesen Cook, we are able after fifty years of silence to listen to Eastman tell us her story in her own remarkably contemporary words." -- Marcia Rockwood, Ms. Magazine

"I have rarely been so moved by a book of short pieces, and I have never been so inspired by the vision they project of active and political feminism. This is an extraordinarily beautiful book. It reflects mature feminism in its richest dimensions, including social justice, pacifism, and a humane vision of the world." -- Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University

"A timely book. It brings back to life a woman whose lively importance has been shamefully neglected." -- Joseph O. Lash

"Every feminist will respond to this remarkable woman of the first wave....This is a wonderful book." -- Joan Kelly, Crysalis

"In editing and introducing Crystal Eastman's writings, Blanche Wiesen Cook provides us with valuable and inaccessible material on socialism and feminism." -- Sheila Rowbotham, New Society