Radical History Review: Volume 70

This issue of Radical History Review brings together articles on the ways women exert power, as well as gendered social relations that limit and complicate their access to power. Dora Dumont unravels the methods of eighteenth-century women textile workers who made the most of their exclusion from the dominant labor guilds. Andy Daitsman examines the legal and economic workings of patriarchy in nineteenth-century Chile and finds women making unexpected places for themselves in the public sphere. Using the private diary and public activism of Ida B. Wells, Patricia A. Schechter considers the conflict between anger and respectability for African-American women reformers at the turn of the twentieth century. Women and Power also features new works in the ongoing sections entitled Public History, Teaching Radical History, and the Past in Print.