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Title: Daughter of Earth: A Novel by Agnes Smedley, Nancy Hoffman ISBN: 0-935312-68-4 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: March, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Misleading
Comment: Daughter of the Earth kept me bewildered, most of the time. A good novel, in the beginning, focusing on Marie's life, her trials as a child and later as a young woman. The character portrait of Marie, left me dreading to pick up the book. Marie turned everything positive into major problems. Smedley created a very dismal portrait of her character and her connection with the term "love" was very depressing. Not to mention "Marie" was a very self-centered person. From the middle to the end of the book I found the text very strange, almost robotic. It also seemed to change from the "story of Marie" to one of "politics in United States". I thus found the beginning of the book very misleading for the ending.
Rating: 5
Summary: Humanity shared
Comment: This is an interesting book because it is about a subject and time not otherwise written about (or at least known to me) much in American literature, from a woman's point of view. Lovers of Steinbeck would find much to admire and enjoy here. It is a very ideological work. Smedley, after all, was a champion of the Chinese revolution and friend of Mao Tse-tung.
It is beautifully and evocatively written, so it does not read like a treatise, but it is a fundamentally political work - feminist and socialist. It is about STRENGTH and politics.
If you are interested in rural poverty, and fighting against the odds and limitations in early 20th century America, you will find much in this book. Fans of Maya Angelou may like this too.
Rating: 5
Summary: a feminist revolutionary in early america
Comment: I read this book 30 years ago and have picked it up again. Ms. Smedley gives a first person account of her life as a revolutionary union organizer and feminist during a time when few women were allowed out alone! This book had a profound impact on how i understand feminism, economic tyranny, the right to organize, and solidarity among women!
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Title: Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure by Nan Enstad ISBN: 0231111037 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.50 |
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Title: Desiring Revolution by Jane F. Gerhard ISBN: 023111205X Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Quicksand and Passing (American Women Writers Series) by Nella Larsen, Deborah McDowell ISBN: 0813511704 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: April, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Angela Y. Davis Reader (Blackwell Readers) by Joy James, Angela Yvonne Davis ISBN: 0631203613 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison ISBN: 0452269571 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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