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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Rabinowitz, Matilda (1887-1963)
Titre(s) : Immigrant girl, radical woman [Texte imprimé] : a memoir from the early twentieth century / Matilda Rabinowitz ; with commentary and original drawings by Robbin Légère Henderson ; afterword by Ileen A. DeVault
Publication : Ithaca : ILR press, 2017
Description matérielle : xv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Matilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of
early twentieth-century women. She 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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Henderson, Robbin (1942-....). Illustrateur
Sujet(s) : Rabinowitz, Matilda (1887-1963)
Femmes dans les syndicats -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Immigrées -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Industrial workers of the world
Socialist Party (États-Unis)
Genre ou forme : Autobiographie
Récits personnels
Indice(s) Dewey :
331.886 (23e éd.) = Syndicats révolutionnaires
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501709845. - ISBN 1501709844. - ISBN 9781501709487 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45586849p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45586849
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The journey to America ; The wretched refuse of your teeming shores ; A new career
; Bridgeport and socialism ; I fell in love with him ; Little Falls ; A gallery
of radicals ; After Little Falls ; Greenville, South Carolina : "the toughest job"
; New York, Greenwich, World War I ; A new life (vita) ; Ben returns ; Washington
; Ballardvale, Massachusetts, Greenwich Village, Cos Cob, St. Louis
