Beth Slutsky is an associate instructor of history at the University of California, Davis, and a program coordinator for the California History–Social Science Project.

"Slutsky's Gendering Radicalism is a good read. Whitney, Healy and Alexander's stories deserve to be told and retold, as their stories are in many ways also the stories of the California Communist Party. By highlighting these courageous lives, Slutsky humanizes the party. She paints a nuanced picture of an organization and its individual members deeply rooted in the American radical tradition, warts and all."-Tony Pecinovsky, People's World "The three remarkable women in this book wrestled with some of the most compelling questions in the history of American reform movements. What was the best way to achieve social justice? Was economic inequality more important than sexism or racism? Slutsky's original, nuanced book explains how these women discovered uniquely American answers to these questions."—Kathy Olmsted, author of Real Enemies, Red Spy Queen, and Challenging the Secret Government “[Gendering Radicalism] combines the study of twentieth-century women, California, and ‘radical’ politics in a way that has not been done before. Very well written and informative.”-Kathleen Cairns, author of Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Three Generations of American Communist Women2. Parlor Pink Turned Soapbox Red: Charlotte Anita Whitney, the American Communist Matriarch, 1867–19553. Red Queen of the West: Dorothy Ray Healey and the Grounding of California's Old Left, 1914–20064. The New Old Left: Kendra Harris Alexander, 1946–19935. American Communism after Three GenerationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Beth Slutsky is an associate instructor of history at the University of California, Davis, and a program coordinator for the California History–Social Science Project.

"Slutsky's Gendering Radicalism is a good read. Whitney, Healy and Alexander's stories deserve to be told and retold, as their stories are in many ways also the stories of the California Communist Party. By highlighting these courageous lives, Slutsky humanizes the party. She paints a nuanced picture of an organization and its individual members deeply rooted in the American radical tradition, warts and all."-Tony Pecinovsky, People's World "The three remarkable women in this book wrestled with some of the most compelling questions in the history of American reform movements. What was the best way to achieve social justice? Was economic inequality more important than sexism or racism? Slutsky's original, nuanced book explains how these women discovered uniquely American answers to these questions."—Kathy Olmsted, author of Real Enemies, Red Spy Queen, and Challenging the Secret Government “[Gendering Radicalism] combines the study of twentieth-century women, California, and ‘radical’ politics in a way that has not been done before. Very well written and informative.”-Kathleen Cairns, author of Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Three Generations of American Communist Women2. Parlor Pink Turned Soapbox Red: Charlotte Anita Whitney, the American Communist Matriarch, 1867–19553. Red Queen of the West: Dorothy Ray Healey and the Grounding of California's Old Left, 1914–20064. The New Old Left: Kendra Harris Alexander, 1946–19935. American Communism after Three GenerationsNotesBibliographyIndex