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