Hennessy, R: In the Company of Radical Women Writers

"This truly revelatory work pushes the already rich encounters between contemporary left feminist scholars and 1930s radical women writers in new directions-new ways of thinking and new fields of desire. Beautifully written, it is a model of engaged, compassionate, and grounded activist research."-Paula Rabinowitz, author of American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street and coeditor of Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940

"Rosemary Hennessy's latest book (re)introduces women writers of the Communist Left who thought the unthinkable of their time and increasingly ours: Black left feminism, radical ecology, the 'erotics of race work.' Their work, and Hennessy's, are primers and love letters for liberation. In the Company of Radical Women Writers exemplifies materialist feminism, scholarship on the American Left, and literary studies for the twenty-first century."-Cheryl Higashida, author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995

"In the Company of Radical Women Writers is significant; it covers 1930s literary history, the civil rights and women's rights movements, and the under-heralded work of seven powerful writers."-Foreword