Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century

Matilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical...
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Author: Matilda Rabinowitz
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Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century by Rabinowitz, Matilda

Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century

€41,64

Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century

€41,64
Author: Matilda Rabinowitz
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Matilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence, equal rights, equal pay, and sexual and personal autonomy.

Rabinowitz (1887-1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. "Big Bill" Haywood once wrote, "a book could be written about Matilda," but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson's black-and white-scratchboard drawings illustrate Rabinowitz's life in the Pale of Settlement, the journey to America, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW, a turbulent romance, and her struggle to support herself and her child.



Author: Matilda Rabinowitz
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 10/15/2017
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 9.71h x 7.98w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781501709845
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Matilda Rabinowitz wrote a regular column, On the Left, for the Socialist Newsletter, a Los Angeles publication of the Socialist Party. Robbin Légère Henderson is an artist and a freelance curator and exhibition consultant. Ileen deVault is Professor of Labor History at Cornell University's ILR School. She is the author of United Apart, also from Cornell.


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