Judy Cox – författare

The dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led by prominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations of female workers for ‘bread and herrings’, which sparked the February Revolution, in most historical accounts of this momentous period, women are too often relegated to the footnotes. Judy Cox argues that women were essential to the success of the revolution and to the development of the Bolshevik Party. With biographical sketches of famous female revolutionaries like Alexandra Kollontai and less well-known figures like Elena Stasova and Larissa Reisner, The Women’s Revolution tells the inspiring story of how Russian women threw off centuries of oppression to strike, organize, liberate themselves and ultimately try to build a new world based on equality and freedom for all.

The dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led by prominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations of female workers for ‘bread and herrings’, which sparked the February Revolution, in most historical accounts of this momentous period, women are too often relegated to the footnotes. Judy Cox argues that women were essential to the success of the revolution and to the development of the Bolshevik Party. With biographical sketches of famous female revolutionaries like Alexandra Kollontai and less well-known figures like Elena Stasova and Larissa Reisner, The Women’s Revolution tells the inspiring story of how Russian women threw off centuries of oppression to strike, organize, liberate themselves and ultimately try to build a new world based on equality and freedom for all.

Lady Insurrectionists tells the story of the iconoclastic women who helped ignite Chartism, the largest democratic movement of the nineteenth century. In this ground-breaking history, Judy Cox brings to life the radical voices of women who refused to be sidelined - figures like the 'Red-Hot Radical' poet Eliza Cook, Quaker abolitionist Elizabeth Pease and the electrifying Chartist speaker Mary Ann Walker. Far from being passive auxiliaries, these women were insurrectionists in thought and action - speaking from platforms, organising strikes, boycotts and petitions, and demanding political rights as workers, women and democrats. At a time when the vote was restricted to a privileged few, they demanded more - and did so on their own terms.This is a bold and necessary rewriting of British radical history. Cox dismantles the myth that feminism began with middle-class suffragists, revealing how working-class women forged a radical politics that defied the gender and social conventions of their age. Lady Insurrectionists restores these women to their rightful place at the heart of the fight for mass democracy and the People's Charter - and shows how their legacy continues to shape struggles for justice today."This is a story of women fighting at barricades, of women theorizing capitalism, of women robbing trains and women smuggling weapons to fight the Tsar. They are the true foremothers of Feminism for the 99%" - Tithi Bhattacharya, co-author Feminism for the 99%