It has been a very long journey with her, but never a lonely one. With so much left unfinished, her thirst and urgency, her marbled idealism and deep humanity, would not let me go. Her restlessness with single-issue politics spoke to me, and still does her effort to bring people and movements together, to organize for common cause, inspires me now more than ever. Over the years since, that voice has stayed with me. What she envisioned, what she demanded and took steps to design, I felt, was a world for women much closer to mine than to her own. Discovering Crystal only through excerpts and flashes, still I was struck by what seemed to be a voice calling ahead of itself, a woman trying to live a life she was also trying to usher into possibility. I was twenty-six years old, and, like her at the very same age, I was finishing my last graduate degree and preparing to embark on an adult life in the world. I first encountered Crystal Eastman more than twenty years ago, when I came across some of her feminist journalism. In loving memory of my mother, Winnie Aronson, who always spoke up. Classification: LCC HQ1413.E A77 2019 | DDC 305.42092 -dc23 LC record available at 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America | Civil rights-United States-History-20th century. | United States-Social conditions-1865–1918. | Labor leaders-United States-Biography. | Suffragists-United States-Biography. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, | Includes bibliographical references and index. Title: Crystal Eastman : a revolutionary life /Amy Aronson. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Aronson, Amy, author. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. © Oxford University Press 2020 All rights reserved. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries.
It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. “Marriage under Two Roofs”: Feminism and Family Lifeġ Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. Passages: Feminism, Journalism, and the Transatlantic Twentiesġ0.
From Protest to Dissent: Wartime Activism and the Founding of the ACLUĩ. Agonizing Dilemmas and the March toward Warħ. Embarking: The Pittsburgh Survey, Workers’ Compensation, and the First Blush of FameĦ. Introduction: Searching for Crystal Eastmanģ.
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