Nine Women

Judith Nies is an author, essayist, and teacher. In addition to this book (first published as Seven Women), she is the author of Native American History (1996). Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, The Progressive, American Voice, Orion, and Harvard Review.

• Acknowledgments Preface to the 2002 Edition Introduction Sarah Moore Grimke Harriet Tubman Elizabeth Cady Stanton Mother Jones Charlotte Perkins Gilman Anna Louise Strong Dorothy Day Fanny Lou Hamer Bella Savitsky Abzug Women and the Environmental Movement Epilogue: The Legacy of the Radical Tradition Further Readings and Individual Bibliographies Selected Bibliography on Women, Radicals, and Historiography Updated Bibliography Index

"Buy Nies's book and read it aloud faithfully, until all of you, young and old, have shared and incorporated into your vision of America the heroic, unique, and visionary contribution women have made to the history of the United States."-Cynthia Warrick Kemper, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Judith Nies [writes] about those courageous, visionary women in our history who were driven to write for and live for wider audiences.... It is about women who chose confrontation with the formidable forces of society rather than quiet communion with their diaries."-Elizabeth Benedict, Christian Science Monitor "Judith Nies begins here to restore the great women radicals to the tradition, knowing that to think of these heroic women simply as fighters for women's suffrage and women's rights is to impoverish...the larger political tradition of which it is a part."-Frances Putnam Fritchman, In These Times "Readers will be remembering a long time the vivid Mary Harris Jones, "Mother Jones," organizing coal miners...remarkable for insight are Nies's essays on Dorothy Day and Charlotte Perkins Gilman."-Willie Lee