{"product_id":"in-the-company-of-radical-women-writers-paperback","title":"In the Company of Radical Women Writers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRosemary Hennessy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society's failures and injustices in the 1930s--a decade unnervingly similar to our own\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Company of Radical Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers--Black, Jewish, and white--who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide urgent, thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental devastation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Hennessy brilliantly shows, the documentary journalism and creative and biographical writings of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Alice Childress, Josephine Herbst, Meridel Le Sueur, and Muriel Rukeyser recognized that life is sustained across a web of dependencies that we each have a duty to maintain. Their work brought into sharp focus the value and dignity of Black women's domestic work, confronted the destructive myths of land exploitation and white supremacy, and explored ways of knowing attuned to a life-giving erotic energy that spans bodies and relations. In doing so, they also expanded the scope of American communism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy tracing the attention these seven women pay to \"life-making\" as the relations supporting survival and wellbeing--from Harlem to the American South and Midwest--\u003ci\u003eIn the Company of Radical Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e reveals their groundbreaking reconceptions of the political and provides bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosemary Hennessy is L. H. Favrot Professor of Humanities and professor of English at Rice University. She is author of three other books, including \u003ci\u003eFires on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.43 x 5.75 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764970389792,"sku":"9781517914905","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9a4f2167bb70f277db7ff093f2b7647a.webp?v=1780259107","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-the-company-of-radical-women-writers-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}