Juno Jill Richards is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. They are a coauthor of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Columbia, 2020).

The Fury Archives is a tour-de-force study of modernist women’s struggles for citizenship and human rights across transnational geographies. Richards reminds us of the variegated sites and everydayness of politics—from the sphere of reproductive labor to the quotidian committee meeting—and offers a compelling genealogy of the intersections between women’s rights and human rights. It is one of the most nuanced accounts of politics as praxis I have ever read.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Sex and Citizenship in the Atlantic Archives1. The Fury Archives: Afterlives of the Female Incendiary2. The Long Middle: Militant Suffrage from Britain to South AfricaPart II. The Reproductive Atlantic3. The Art of Not Having Children: Birth Strike, Sabotage, and the Reproductive Atlantic4. Rhineland Bastards, Queer Species: An Afro-German Case StudyPart III. Convergences in Institutional Human Rights5. Surrealism’s Inhumanities: Chance Encounter, Lesbian Crime, Queer Resistance6. The Committee Form: Négritude Women and the United NationsEpilogue. Social Reproduction and the Midcentury Witch: Leonora Carrington in MexicoNotesBibliographyIndex

Juno Jill Richards is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. They are a coauthor of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Columbia, 2020).

The Fury Archives is a tour-de-force study of modernist women’s struggles for citizenship and human rights across transnational geographies. Richards reminds us of the variegated sites and everydayness of politics—from the sphere of reproductive labor to the quotidian committee meeting—and offers a compelling genealogy of the intersections between women’s rights and human rights. It is one of the most nuanced accounts of politics as praxis I have ever read.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Sex and Citizenship in the Atlantic Archives1. The Fury Archives: Afterlives of the Female Incendiary2. The Long Middle: Militant Suffrage from Britain to South AfricaPart II. The Reproductive Atlantic3. The Art of Not Having Children: Birth Strike, Sabotage, and the Reproductive Atlantic4. Rhineland Bastards, Queer Species: An Afro-German Case StudyPart III. Convergences in Institutional Human Rights5. Surrealism’s Inhumanities: Chance Encounter, Lesbian Crime, Queer Resistance6. The Committee Form: Négritude Women and the United NationsEpilogue. Social Reproduction and the Midcentury Witch: Leonora Carrington in MexicoNotesBibliographyIndex