Passionate Commitments by Julia M Allen
is a love story, but more than that, it is a story of two women whose love for each other sustained their political work. Allen examines the personal and public writings of Rochester and Hutchins to reveal underreported challenges to capitalism as well as little-known efforts to strengthen feminism during their time. Through an investigation of their lives and writings, this biography charts the underpinnings of American Cold War fears and the influence of sexology on political movements in mid-twentieth-century America."Julia MAllen has written a wonderful, engaging, queerly emblematic joint biography of Grace Hutchins (1885–1969) and Anna Rochester (1880–1966), life partners who devoted themselves to the Communist Party and a seemingly infinite number of allied causes, especially those that advanced the equality of women … Allen's monumental study, worthy of these two extraordinary lives, goes a long way toward correcting the historical record." — Women's Review of Books
"Highly recommended." — CHOICE
Julia M. Allen is Professor Emerita of English at Sonoma State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438446875 |
| ISBN 10 | 143844687X |
| Title | Passionate Commitments |
| Author | Julia M Allen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2013-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 378 |
| Prizes | Winner of Triangle Awards (Lesbian Nonfiction) 2014 |
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