Lara Vapnek: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (2015) LEC, ENG

Historian Lara Vapnek introduces her biography of the woman who became the most important female leader of the Industrial Workers of the World and of the American Communist Party. Vapnek weaves together Flynns personal and political life, making connections between feminism, socialism, free love, and free speech. Vapnek explores these ideas with the preeminent U. S. womens historian Alice KesslerHarris.