Offers a collection of interviews, original historical research, and primary sources examining the trailblazing lives and movements of radical women who have shaped the modern world. Rosa Luxemburg, Claudia Jones and Leila Khaled may have joined Lenin, Mao and Che in the pantheon of twentieth-century revolutionaries, but the histories in which they figure remain unjustly dominated by men. This volume sets the record straight, revealing how women have contributed to revolutionary movements across the world in endless ways: ...
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Offers a collection of interviews, original historical research, and primary sources examining the trailblazing lives and movements of radical women who have shaped the modern world. Rosa Luxemburg, Claudia Jones and Leila Khaled may have joined Lenin, Mao and Che in the pantheon of twentieth-century revolutionaries, but the histories in which they figure remain unjustly dominated by men. This volume sets the record straight, revealing how women have contributed to revolutionary movements across the world in endless ways: as leaders, rebels, trailblazers, guerrillas and writers; revolutionaries who also navigated their gendered roles as women, mothers, wives and daughters. --From publisher's description.
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