{"product_id":"revolutionary-feminists-9781478017219","title":"Revolutionary Feminists","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Feminists\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the radical women’s liberation movement in Seattle in the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of a founding member, Barbara Winslow. Drawing on her collection of letters, pamphlets, and photographs as well as newspaper accounts, autobiographies, and interviews, Winslow emphasizes the vital role that Black women played in the women’s liberation movement to create meaningful intersectional coalitions in an overwhelmingly White city. Winslow brings the voices and visions of those she calls the movement’s “ecstatic utopians” to life. She charts their short-term successes and lasting achievements, from organizing women at work and campaigning for subsidized childcare to creating women-centered rape crisis centers, health clinics, and self-defense programs. The Seattle movement was essential to winning the first popular vote in the United States to liberalize abortion laws. Despite these achievements, Winslow cr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Barbara Winslow brings her historian’s sensibilities, political perspicacity, personal knowledge, and perfect comedic timing to tell a story of women’s liberation in Seattle that effectively overturns the conventional wisdom about the roots and branches of radical feminism. Winslow and her awesome comrades built a movement that, from its inception, was class conscious, Marxist-oriented, antiracist, anti-imperialist, nonsectarian, cross-generational, and ahead of the nation in its fight for reproductive justice, free childcare, and sexual freedom. They made mistakes and wrestled with internal contradictions but never lost sight of their objective: world revolution. Seattle, it turns out, was not only the greenest place in the country; it may well have been the reddest.” -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of * Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination *\u003cbr\u003e“In this comprehensive study of women’s liberation in Seattle, Barbara Winslow carefully excavates a history that is quite different from the ones that have been told about less radical movements on the East Coast. With deep archival and personal knowledge, she illuminates the role of socialist feminists within women’s liberation, complicating the movement’s history in ways that intervene in today’s debates about feminism’s relationship to race, reproductive politics, capitalism, and US imperialism. An impressive and distinctive work.” -- Felicia Kornbluh, coauthor of * Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective *\u003cbr\u003e\"Forcefully pushing back against criticism that the organizations behind the movement, including her own Radical Women, advanced a white, middle-class agenda and ignored the needs of women of color, Winslow highlights their anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist perspectives and focus on issues of childcare, and notes the involvement of Black feminist luminaries including Nina Harding. . . . Worthwhile. . . .\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"The writing’s strength lies in its thoroughness of detail and commitment to giving voice to small, grassroots organizations that might otherwise be overlooked. . . . Recommended for readers with an interest in political science, U.S. history, and feminist or diversity studies.\" -- Monique Martinez * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcronyms  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. It’s Reigning Men  13\u003cbr\u003e 2. From the Woman Question to Women’s Liberation  27\u003cbr\u003e 3. Let Him Her Live  48\u003cbr\u003e 4. Freed Up and Fired Up  72\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Rising of the Women  92\u003cbr\u003e 6. Antiwar, Antidraft, and Anti-imperialist Feminist Activism  110\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Multiplicity of Us  124\u003cbr\u003e 8. Flow and Ebb  144\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue  157\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Seattle Activists: Where Are They Now? 175\u003cbr\u003e Notes  183\u003cbr\u003e Glossary  207\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  213\u003cbr\u003e Index  223","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409005551959,"sku":"9781478017219","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017219.jpg?v=1730505061","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/revolutionary-feminists-9781478017219","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}