Dreamers of a New Day
Dreamers of a New Day
Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM
First published by Verso 2010
© Sheila Rowbotham 2010
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The moral rights of the author have been asserted
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ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-613-2
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Typeset in Bembo by Hewer Text UK Ltd, Edinburgh
Printed in the US by Maple Vail
Contents
4 ‘What Every Girl Should Know’
10 Democratizing Daily Life: Redesigning Democracy
Newspapers and Periodicals Consulted
List of Illustrations
1 Birmingham Ladies Union Journal
3 Brochure advertising lectures by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
10 Socialist Sunday School membership card
15 Margaret Sanger in court with her sister Ethel Bryne, 1916
16 Stella Browne, Dora Russell and Bertrand Russell, 1923
19 Margaret McMillan Nursery Camp
20 Ellen Swallow Richards testing the algae on Jamaica Pond, Boston 1901
22 Crystal Eastman, ca 1910–1915, by Arnold Genthe