TY - BOOK ID - 78071178 TI - Gendering radicalism : women and communism in twentieth-century California PY - 2015 SN - 0803278624 9780803278622 080325475X 9780803254756 9780803254756 9780803278615 9780803278608 0803278608 0700618082 0803278616 PB - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, DB - UniCat KW - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism. KW - Intergenerational relations KW - Sex role KW - Women political activists KW - Women radicals KW - Women communists KW - Intergenerational relationships KW - Relations, Intergenerational KW - Relationships, Intergenerational KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Gender role KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Political activists KW - Radicals KW - Communists KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Alexander, Kendra, KW - Healey, Dorothy, KW - Whitney, Anita, KW - Communist Party of the United States of America (Calif.) KW - Communist Party of California KW - California Communist Party KW - History. KW - California KW - Alta California (Province) KW - CA KW - Cal. KW - Cali. KW - Calif. KW - Californias (Province) KW - CF KW - Chia-chou KW - Departamento de Californias KW - Kʻaellipʻonia KW - Kʻaellipʻonia-ju KW - Kʻaellipʻoniaju KW - Kalifornii KW - Kalifornii︠a︡ KW - Kalifornija KW - Ḳalifornyah KW - Ḳalifornye KW - Kālīfūrniyā KW - Kaliphornia KW - Karapōnia KW - Kariforunia KW - Kariforunia-shū KW - Medinat Ḳalifornyah KW - Politeia tēs Kaliphornias KW - Provincia de Californias KW - Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ KW - State of California KW - Upper California KW - Πολιτεία της Καλιφόρνιας KW - Καλιφόρνια KW - Штат Каліфорнія KW - Калифорния KW - Калифорнија KW - Калифорнии KW - Каліфорнія KW - קאליפארניע KW - קליפורניה KW - מדינת קליפורניה KW - كاليفورنيا KW - カリフォルニア KW - カリフォルニア州 KW - 캘리포니아 KW - 캘리포니아 주 KW - 캘리포니아주 KW - Politics and government KW - Whitney, Charlotte Anita, KW - Rosenblum, Dorothy Harriet, KW - Alexander, Kendra KW - Harris, Kendra Claire, KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071178 AB - "In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying member of the Young Communist League. Nearly forty years later, in 1966, Kendra Claire Harris Alexander, a mixed-race woman, enlisted with the Los Angeles branch of the Communist Party, determined to promote class equality. In Gendering Radicalism, Beth Slutsky examines how American leftist radicalism was experienced through the lives of these three women who led the California branches of the Communist Party from its founding in 1919 to its near dissolution in 1992. Separately, each woman represents a generation of the membership and activism of the party. Collectively, Slutsky argues, their individual histories tell the story of one of the most infamous organizations this country has ever known and in a broader sense represent the story of all women who have devoted their lives to radicalism in America. Slutsky considers how gender politics, California's political climate, coalitions with other activist groups and local communities, and generational dynamics created a grassroots Communist movement distinct from the Communist parties in the Soviet Union and Europe. An ambitious comparative study, Gendering Radicalism demonstrates the continuity and changes of the party both within and among three generations of its female leaders' lives"-- ER -