{"product_id":"nine-women-portraits-from-the-american-radical-tradition-paperback","title":"Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudith Nies\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an expanded edition of her history of American women activists, Judith Nies has added biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a new chapter on women environmental activists. Included are portraits of Sarah Moore Grimké, who rejected her life as a Southern aristocrat and slaveholder to promote women's rights and the abolition of slavery; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who led more than three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railway; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first woman to run for Congress, who advocated for women's rights to own property, to vote, and to divorce; Mother Jones, \"the Joan of Arc of the coalfields,\" one of the most inspiring voices of the American labor movement; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who worked for the reform of two of America's most cherished institutions, the home and motherhood; Anna Louise Strong, an intrepid journalist who covered revolutions in Russia and China; and Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, who fed and sheltered the hungry and homeless in New York's Bowery for more than forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Nies\u003c\/b\u003e is an author, essayist, and teacher. In addition to this book (first published as \u003ci\u003eSeven Women\u003c\/i\u003e), she is the author of \u003ci\u003eNative American History \u003c\/i\u003e(1996). Her essays have been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe, The Progressive, American Voice, Orion, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 364\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.23 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468081119485,"sku":"9780520229655","price":60.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/cE1hVjVLVXJWWDVab1MwM0FzbTJLUT09.webp?v=1777285298","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/nine-women-portraits-from-the-american-radical-tradition-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}