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Obituary Marxism in vogue The death of Yvonne Kapp at the age of 96 should be marked with the respect due to the author of one of the best biographies ever written. Kapp's two volume work on the life of Karl Marx's youngest daughter, Eleanor, is both a tremendous history of the working class and socialist movement in the 1880s and 90s and a highly sympathetic account of the life of one woman, her achievements and her disappointments, which ended with her suicide in 1898 at the age of 43. Yvonne Kapp herself was a remarkable woman who was born into a wealthy Jewish family and whose career spanned periods as the literary editor of Vogue in Paris during the 1920s and as a research officer in the AEU engineers' union during the Second World War. She led what was then called a bohemian life after her marriage at the age of 19 to artist and musician Edmond Kapp, travelling around Europe and earning her living through writing. Like many others of her generation, Hitler's r...

Sheila Rowbotham From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943 Leeds , West Yorkshire ) is a British socialist feminist theorist and writer. Contents[ hide ] 1 Early life 2 Outlook on feminism 3 Recent professional life 4 Notes 5 See also 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 External links // [ edit ] Early life Rowbotham was born in Leeds, the daughter of a salesman for an engineering company and an office clerk [1] From an early age, she was deeply interested in history [2] . Rowbotham was to write that traditional political history “left her cold”, but she credited Olga Wilkinson, one of her teachers with encouraging her interest in social history by showing that history “belonged to the present, not to the history textbooks”. [1] Rowbotham attended St Hilda’s College at Oxford and then the University of London . She began her working life as a teacher in comprehensive schools and institutes of higher or Adult educatio...

bell hooks From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search bell hooks Born Gloria Jean WatkinsSeptember 25, 1952 (1952-09-25) (age 57) Hopkinsville, Kentucky , USA Pen name bell hooks Occupation Author , feminist , social activist Notable work(s) Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism All About Love: New Visions We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity Influences [show] Sojourner Truth , Paulo Freire , Gustavo Gutierrez , Erich Fromm , Lorraine Hansberry , Thich Nhat Hanh , James Baldwin , Malcolm X , Martin Luther King, Jr. Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks, [1] [2] is an American author , feminist , and social activist . Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race , class , and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and pa...