Revolutionary Women

A Book of Stencils

Queen of the Neighbourhood

• Publisher: PM Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781604862003
• eBook ISBN:
  9781604864649
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

A radical feminist history and street art resource for inspired readers! This book combines short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of thirty women—activists, anarchists, feminists, freedom-fighters, and visionaries.

It offers a subversive portrait history which refuses to belittle the military prowess and revolutionary drive of women, whose violent resolves often shatter the archetype of woman-as-nurturer. It is also a celebration of some extremely brave women who have spent their lives fighting for what they believe in and rallying supporters in climates where a woman's authority is never taken as seriously as a man's. The text also shares some of each woman's ideologies, philosophies, struggles, and quiet humanity with quotes from their writings or speeches.

The women featured are: Harriet Tubman, Louise Michel, Vera Zasulich, Emma Goldman, Qiu Jin, Nora Connolly O'Brien, Lucia Sanchez Saornil, Angela Davis, Leila Khaled, Comandante Ramona, Phoolan Devi, Ani Pachen, Anna Mae Aquash, Hannie Schaft, Rosa Luxemburg, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Lolita Lebron, Djamila Bouhired, Malalai Joya, Vandana Shiva, Olive Morris, Assata Shakur, Sylvia Rivera, Haydée Santamaría, Marie Equi, Mother Jones, Doria Shafik, Ondina Peteani, Whina Cooper, and Lucy Parsons.

RESOURCE LIST

A short list of sites/books dedicated to portraiture of radicals:

http://www.imow.org/wpp/stories/viewStory?storyid=1407

http://leftistlounge.com/Art/woman%20canvas/index.html

http://www.favianna.com/port_other/other1.php

http://www.justseeds.org/artists/

http://infoshop.org/page/Anarcha-feminism

http://www.artsenliberte.com/php/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=43

http://cake3.home.mindspring.com/feminino_page.htm

Waugh, Nicole and Jay Moreno. The Color Of Dissent: Book One. Coloring For A Cause, 2006.

HARRIET TUBMAN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman.

Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.

Humez, Jean M. Harriet Tubman: The Life and Life Stories. Madison:

The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

Jones, David E. Women Warriors: A History. Washington: Brassey’s Ltd, 1997 (reprint 2005).

Lee, Butch. Jailbreak out of History: The Re-biography of Harriet Tubman. Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2003.

LOUISE MICHEL

http://www.iisg.nl/collections/louisemichel/biography.php.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Michel.

Maclellan, Nic, ed. Louise Michel. Rebel Lives Series. Melbourne: Ocean Press, 2004.

Michel, Louise. The Memoirs of Louise Michel, the Red Virgin. University of Alabama Press, 1981.

Thomas, Edith. Louise Michel. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1980.

MOTHER JONES

Broderick, Marian. Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History. Dublin: O’Brien, 2001.

Gannon, Joseph E. “Mary Harris Jones: One Tough ‘Mother’.” http://thewildgeese.com/pages/mojones.html.

Gorn, Elliot. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.

Gorn, Elliot. “Mother Jones: The Woman.” Mother Jones. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2001/05/mother-jones-woman.

VERA ZASULICH

http://www.marxists.org/archive/Zasulich/index.htm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Zasulich.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSzasulich.htm.

Bergman, Jay. Vera Zasulich: A Biography. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1983.

Silijak, Ana. Angel of Vengeance: The “Girl Assassin,” The Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia’s Revolutionary World. New York: St Martin’s Press, 2008.

LUCY PARSONS

Ashbaugh, Carolyn. Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1976.

Flood, Andrew. “Rescuing Lucy Parsons for the Anarchist Movement.” http://www.struggle.ws/andrew/people/LucyParsons.html?story_id=426.

http://www.lucyparsons.org.

http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org.

McKean, Jacob. “A Fury for Justice: Lucy Parsons and the Revolutionary Anarchist Movement in Chicago.” http://www.wcote.org/∼road runner/ScarlettLetterArchives/LucyParsons/FuryforJustice.htm

Parsons, Lucy. Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity: Writings and Speeches, 1878–1937. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 2003.

Roediger, Dave and Franklin Rosemont, eds. Haymarket Scrapbook. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1986.

EMMA GOLDMAN

Falk, Candace Serena. Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Goldman, Emma. Living My Life. 2 vols. New York: Pluto Books, 1987.

Rudahl, Sharon. A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman. New York: The New Press, 2007.

Wexler, Alice. Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

_______. Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman.

ROSA LUXEMBURG

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSluxemburg.htm.

http://www.rosalux.de/cms/index.php?id=4551.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,601475,00.html.

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Luxemburg.html.

Ettinger, Elzbieta. Rosa Luxemburg: A Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

Luxemburg, Rosa. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004.

_______. The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1993.

Nettl, J. P. Rosa Luxemburg. 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

MARIE EQUI

http://bitter.custard.org/intimate/fling/equi.htm.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_103.html.

http://www.glapn.org/605equi.html.

http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID= 000B3F93-20D8-1E30-925B80B05272006C.

Friedman, Ralph. The Other Side of Oregon. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press, 1993.

Krieger, Nancy. Queen of the Bolsheviks: The Hidden History of Dr. Marie Equi. Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2009.

QIU JIN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiu_Jin.

http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/qiujin.html.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Stencils
• Harriet Tubman (1820–1913)
• Louise Michel (1830–1905)
• Mother Jones (1837–1930)
• Vera Zasulich (1849–1919)
• Lucy Parsons (1853–1942)
• Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919)
• Marie Equi (1872–1952)
• Qiu Jin (1875–1907)
• Nora Connolly O’Brien (1893–1981)
• Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1897–1970)
• Whina Cooper (1895–1994)
• Doria Shafik (1908–1975)
• Lolita Lebrón (1919–2010)
• Hannie Schaft (1920–1945)
• Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado (1922–1980)
• Ondina Peteani (1925–2003)
• Ani Pachen (1933–2002)
• Djamila Bouhired (b.1935)
• Angela Davis (b.1944)
• Leila Khaled (b.1944)
• Anna Mae Aquash (1945–1975)
• Assata Shakur (b.1947)
• Brigitte Mohnhaupt (b.1949)
• Sylvia Rivera (1951–2002)
• Olive Morris (1952–1979)
• Vandana Shiva (b.1952)
• Comandante Ramona (1959–2006)
• Phoolan Devi (1963–2001)
• Malalai Joya (b.1978)
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary
• Resource List
• Collective Bio