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Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall (1939–2015)

Autor(a) de Dear sisters : dispatches from the women's liberation movement

6+ Works 356 Membros 3 Reviews

About the Author

Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was born in Manhattan, New York on June 12, 1939. She received a bachelor's degree in French from the University of Wisconsin in 1961 and a master's degree from the School of Social Work at Columbia University in 1963. She began working for the Mobilization for Youth and mostrar mais took part in the women's movement. She picketed the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City and had a prominent role in the abortion speakout in the West Village in 1969. In 1971, she began teaching in the American studies department at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. She later served as head of the department. After retiring from SUNY in 2012, she taught in the labor studies program of the City University of New York and at the Bayview Correctional Facility. She along with Linda Gordon and Susan Reverby assembled primary documents that offered a sweeping history of women and labor. Their book, America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present, was published in 1976. Her other books include Technology, the Labor Process and the Working Class: A Collection of Essays, Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement, and Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened written with Elizabeth Ewen. She died from kidney cancer on October 13, 2015 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras de Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall

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Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990) — Contribuinte, algumas edições105 cópias
New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism (1993) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias

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This collection of primary sources from the 1970's Women's Liberation movement is made up of work that was first available through the underground press as mimeographed flyers, pamphlets or articles. The editors were participants in the movement: Baxandall was a member of New York Radical Women and Gordon was involved with the socialist organization Bread and Roses out of Boston. Their introductory essay offers a useful theoretical outline for looking at this period of women's history that addresses relevant issues of culture and the underground press explicitly. Works are cited in their original form as much as possible but there is no extensive bibliography or detailed information on the original publications themselves. It is noted that the editors did extensive research in private collections to get their material, so this is unfortunate.… (mais)
 
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tvgrl | Jul 26, 2013 |
The subject matter (the evolution of suburbia, from architecture to economics to neighborhood/community culture, on Long Island NY) is interesting, and the authors' writing style is refreshingly readable, especially for an academic work. But somebody did a positively *horrible* job proofreading and cleaning this up for publication. The sheer number of typos and even improperly formated bits (such as the second and third block quotes and footnoted items in the first chapter) honestly shocked me. I actually flipped back to the publication page, about 20 pages in, to doublecheck whether my copy might be an uncorrected ARC. The sloppiness really undercut my enjoyment of the reading and even my trust of the work, which was a shame.… (mais)
 
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Fullmoonblue | 1 outra resenha | Sep 24, 2009 |
I think there are better books about the history of suburbia, but the second half of Picture Windows was a great study of the original Levittown on Long Island. I especially appreciated the discussion of recent changes in the racial and ethnic demographics of Long Island, as well as the economic difficulties resulting from de-industrialization and illegal work practices. The authors present a more positive, though still critical, view of suburbia that is missing in most scholarship.
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Corinne | 1 outra resenha | Sep 6, 2007 |

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6
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Membros
356
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#67,310
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
3
ISBNs
12

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