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020			_z9780803254756 (cloth : alkaline paper)
020			_z9780803278615 (MOBI)
020			_z9780803278622 (PDF)
020			_a9780803278622 (e-book)
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050	1	4	_aHX84.A2 _bS64 2015eb
082	0	4	_a335.43092/5209794 _223
100	1		_aSlutsky, Beth, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGendering radicalism : _bwomen and communism in twentieth-century California / _cBeth Slutsky.
264		1	_aLincoln : _bUniversity of Nebraska Press, _c[2015]
264		4	_c�2015
300			_a1 online resource (286 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aWomen in the West
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_a1. 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.
520	2		_a"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 card-carrying member of the Young Communist League. Nearly forty years later, in 1966, Kendra Claire Harris Alexander, a mixed-race woman, enlisted with the Los Angeles branch of the Communist Party, determined to promote class equality. In Gendering Radicalism, Beth Slutsky examines how American leftist radicalism was experienced through the lives of these three women who led the California branches of the Communist Party from its founding in 1919 to its near dissolution in 1992. Separately, each woman represents a generation of the membership and activism of the party. Collectively, Slutsky argues, their individual histories tell the story of one of the most infamous organizations this country has ever known and in a broader sense represent the story of all women who have devoted their lives to radicalism in America. Slutsky considers how gender politics, California's political climate, coalitions with other activist groups and local communities, and generational dynamics created a grassroots Communist movement distinct from the Communist parties in the Soviet Union and Europe. An ambitious comparative study, Gendering Radicalism demonstrates the continuity and changes of the party both within and among three generations of its female leaders' lives"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
600	1	0	_aWhitney, Anita, _d1867-1955.
600	1	0	_aHealey, Dorothy, _d1914-2006.
600	1	0	_aAlexander, Kendra, _d1946-1993.
610	2	0	_aCommunist Party of the United States of America (Calif.) _xHistory.
650		0	_aWomen communists _zCalifornia _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen radicals _zCalifornia _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen political activists _zCalifornia _vBiography.
650		0	_aSex role _xPolitical aspects _zCalifornia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aIntergenerational relations _xPolitical aspects _zCalifornia _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aCalifornia _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
797	2		_aebrary.
830		0	_aWomen in the West.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=11068819 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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