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While on assignment for the Village Voice at the end of the 1960s, the writer Vivian Gornick found herself drawn into the gyre of the New York Radical Women, a second-wave feminist protest group formed as a response to the male domination of US civil-rights organisations. In that moment, Gornick’s personal experience – she’d grown up in a socialist household in the Bronx – locked in with a nascent political movement, giving her a sense of harmony.

Burnout, Hannah Proctor’s study of ‘the experience of political defeat’, is full of historical detail, but it’s messily put together

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.