Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution

Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume I: The Early Years, 1884-1933; Volume II: The Defining Years, 1933-1938; and Volume III: The War Years and After, 1939-1962.

• IntroductionPart One Crystal Eastman on WomenFeminist Theory and ProgramMother-Worship Birth Control in the Feminist Program Feminism: A Statement Read at the First Feminist Congress in the United States Practical Feminism Now We Can Begin 52Alice Paul's Convention 57Personalities and Powers: Alice Paul 63Political Equality League: Report on the Wisconsin Suffrage Campaign 661848--1923 70CREATING FEMINIST LIFE-STYLESShort Hair and Short Skirts 74 Marriage under Two Roofs 76Bed-Makers and Bosses 83 Boys and Girls 85Bertrand Russell on Bringing Up Children: An Interview with the Noted Author of Education and the Good Life 88Schoolgirl Fiction for To-day 93What Shall We Do with the Woman's Page? 96WOMAN'S PLACE-BEYOND THE HOMEls Woman's Place the Home? 99Lady Rhondda Contends That Women of LeisureAre "Menace": A Public Debate between Lady Rhondda and G. K. Chesterton 102Personalities and Powers: Anna Wickham 105 Caroline Haslett and the Women Engineers 1 09 Who Is Dora Black? 114Lind bergh's Mother 119Mrs. Pankhurst Comes Back as Candidate for Parliament I 2 rA FEMINIST CONCEPTION OF CRIMINAL LAWProtection of Children r 2 5Justice for the Prostitute-Lady Astor's Bill r 28ORGANIZING AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST FEMINIST FUTURESuffragists Ten Years After I 32 Keeping Abreast of the Times I 35 A Matter of Emphasis r 36Britain 's Labor Women r 39The New British Commonwealth League 143 Socialist Women of Eighteen Countries Meet atMarseilles 146THERE IS NO PROTECTION WITHOUT EQUALITYAn Acid Test for Suffragists 154 Equality or Protection 156 Feminists Must Fight 160English Feminists and Special Labor Laws for Women 161International Co-operation 165Protective Legislation in England 170London Letter-The Married Teacher 172British Women Fire the First Gun in Their Second Suffrage Battle 177British Women Condemn Sex Restrictions in Industry 182Woman's Party Accepts Paris Congress Repulse as Spur to a World-Wide Feminist Movement 186The Great Rejection: Part I 195 The Great Rejection: Part II 199 · The Great Rejection: Part III 207Recent Developments in England 2 1 2What Is Real Protection? 2 1 5 Women, Rights and Privileges 220Letter to the Editor of Time and Tide 223Equalitarian vs. Reformer 225Part Two Crystal Eastman On RevolutionAGAINST IMPERIAL WARFARE: THE WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY AND THE AMERICAN UNION AGAINST MILITARISMTo Make War Unthinkable 235Now I Dare To Do It: An Interview with Dr. Aletta Jacobs 237A Platform of Real Preparedness 24 1Suggestions for 1916-1917 247 War and Peace 252Letter, Crystal Eastman to Emily Greene Balch, 14 June 1917 254AUAM Press Release 261Our War Record: A Plea for Tolerance 264 A Program for Voting Women 266FROM REFORM TO SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONWork-Accidents and Employers' Liability 269 The Three Essentials for Accident Prevention 280 Edi torials, Introductory Issue of The Liberator 290 The Socialist Vote 293Aeroplanes and Jails 294Unsigned Editorials, The Liberator, February 1919 296A League of Which Nations? 296Political Prisoners 297The Allied Intervention in Russia and Hungary 298 The Mooney Congress 302 In Communist Hungary British Labor Is Moving The Workers of the ClydeThe Socialist Party Convention 349The British Labour Party Conference 357APPENDIX: CONTEMPORARY ARTICLES ABOUT CRYSTAL EASTMANPortia Appointed by the Governor . . . 358 Crystal Eastman in Hungary 367Elisabeth Smith: Feminist For Equality, Not "Women As Women" 368Freda Kirchwey: Crystal Eastman 371Index 377

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.