is a historian and writer. She was involved in organizing the first national UK Women’s Liberation Movement conference in 1970, and is the author of Women's Liberation and the New Politics (1969); Women, Resistance, and Revolution (1972); and Women's Consciousness, Man's World (1973). Recent publications include Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (2008) and Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century (2010).
Kollontai’s life reflected the political turns of the revolution, just as her fame since her death has fluctuated. Our organizational reality is not hers, yet her works continue to pose key questions for women’s liberation and the revolutionary movement.
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