Meredith Tax

A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic State In wartorn Syria, a Kurdish democratic society—based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality—with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and courageous leaders, is winning significant victories against the Islamic State. Their heroic story demonstrates that a politics founded in human rights is not only possible in the Middle...

In this landmark study of American labour history, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements between 1880 and 1917 in the USA. Caught between the hostility of male trade unionists, the chauvinism of male socialist organisers, and the assumptions of middle-class feminists, women workers forged their own demands for economic and political justice in...