The biography of the black woman who was beaten when she tried to register to vote in the South tells of the growing resolve that led her to found the National Women's Political Caucus and devote her life to the expansion of civil rights. 25;000 first printing. Tour.
#14644851 in Books Cambridge University Press 2002-02-25Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.98 x .98 x 5.98l; 1.25 #File Name: 0521780640314 pages
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Feminism in the Workers ParadiseBy john thamesProfessor Wendy Goldmann has written a convincing expose of Soviet style feminism - the prototype of Betty Goldstein/Friedan style feminism in the west. Although no one wants to admit it; feminism as a twentieth century ideology originated in the workers paradise of the Jewish commissars. It became official Communist policy to drive women out of the home; that corrupt "bourgeois" institution; into the factories and collective farms to practice "scientific socialist" female labor. The Communists quickly established quotas for women and instituted maternity leave so that women could get pregnant and stay employed. Joseph Stalin made many speeches praising Soviet women and their accomplishments. It was very common in Russia of the 1920's through 1940's to see women driving tractors on farms; sweeping the streets or working with men on the production lines.Of course; all this caused the same problems in Soviet Russia that it has caused in the west today. Angry employers bitching about pregnancy disruptions; squeezed posteriors and sexual harassment; preferential rest breaks for more delicate female workers; etc. Nevrtheless; the Communists persisted. Women predominated in local councils and mid-management positions; practicing motherhood and housework was out.Professor Goldmann paints all this as the essence of progress. But Madame Kollontai to the contrary; feminism in the U.S. and west is merely the poison that destroyed Russia in the era of the gulag.
