¹ They serve to show how ill informed is Gertrude Himmelfarb in her polemic, “Denigrating the Rule of Reason: The ‘New History’ Goes Bottom-Up,” Harper's Magazine (04 1984), 18ff.Google Scholar

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¹⁷ See Buhle's moving mini-biography of Morrow Lewis in Miller, 61–86.

¹⁸ Pratt, William C. in his careful study of a local S.P. at a later time found the same phenomenon. “Women Socialists and their Male Comrades: The Reading Experience, 1927–1936,” in Miller, 145–78.Google Scholar

¹⁹ Although these comments are drawn from Gretchen and Kent Kreuters' research on Simons (Miller, 37–60), I am not convinced by their argument that she both “abondoned her feminism” and made her shift to the right because she was overwhelmed by family responsibilities. She did, after all, go on, after leaving the Socialist Party, to (1) become the Illinois president of the League, and (2) to obtain a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago (they do not indicate the subject matter). Although socialism was “eclipsed,” a “political and professional life” was not. What the Kreuters are trying to prove is that family life, the “private sphere” was inimical to Simons' full development. This may be to an extent true (especially with Algie as a husband), but her path seems to be fairly typical of many middle-class, politically involved women (and men) of the age: a move from moderate socialism to progressivism. The Kreuters follow a line, in fact, that has plenty of current ideological support; for the controversy in European family and working-class history, see Hilden, Patricia, “Family History vs. Women in History: a Critique of Tilly and Scott,”Google Scholar and Scott, Joan Wallach, “Reply to the Hilden Critique,” International Labor and Working Class History, 16 (Fall 1979), 1–17.Google Scholar

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