The Masses was the most dynamic and influential left-wing magazine of the early twentieth century, a touchstone for understanding radical thought and social movements in the United States during that era. As a magazine that supported feminist issues, it played a crucial role in shaping public discourse about women's concerns. Women editors, fiction writers, poets, and activists like Mary Heaton Vorse, Louise Bryant, Adriana Spadoni, Elsie Clews Parsons, Inez Haynes Gillmore, and Helen Hull contributed as significantly to the magazine as better-known male figures.In this major revisionist work, Margaret C. Jones calls for reexamination of the relevance of Masses feminism to that of the 1990s. She explores women contributors' perspectives on crucial issues: patriarchy, birth control, the labor movement, woman suffrage, pacifism, and ethnicity. The book includes numerous examples of the writings and visual art of Masses women and a series of biographical/bibliographical sketches designed to aid other researchers.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Margaret C. Jones
EAN: 9780292740273
COUNTRY: United States
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HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: University of Texas Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 1993-09-01
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GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
WIDTH: 152 cm
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United States of America, USA, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Gender studies: women and girls, History of the Americas
This book reclaims an important aspect of the history of feminism in America because it shows how women who were active in a variety of causes kept sight of those issues that affected the majority of women. Students of women's literature, class-conscious feminism, and radical journalism in pre-WWI America will find this book and its scholarly apparatus extremely useful.
Margaret C. Jones was a member of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of the West of England.
