Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In 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. Also included are portraits of Sarah Moore Grimke, 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 Railroad; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first woman to run for Congress; Mother Jones, 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.

FROM THE CRITICS

Elizabeth Benedict - Christian Science Monitor

Judith Nies [writes] about those courageous, visionary women in our history who were driven to write for and live for wider audiences . . . . It is about women who chose confrontation with the formidable forces of society rather than quiet communion with their diaries.

Cynthia Warrick Kemper - Los Angeles Times Book Review

Buy Nies's book and read it aloud faithfully, until all of you, young and old, have shared and incorporated into your vision of America the heroic, unique, and visionary contribution women have made to the history of the United States.

Frances Putnam Fritchman

Judith Nies begins here to restore the great women radicals to the tradition, knowing that to think of these heroic women simply as fighters for women's suffrage and women's rights is to impoverish . . . the larger political tradition of which it is a part.

Willie Lee Rose - New York Review of Books