A Feminist Press classic, reissued with a new introduction.
This
semiautobiographical account of an early twentieth-century activist
recounts growing up in rural poverty in farming settlements and
mining towns; discovering the double standards of race and sex among
East Coast intellectuals; facing false espionage charges; and
maintaining independence through two tormented marriages.
Groundbreaking in its portrayal of sexism within the socialist
movement, Daughter of Earth was uniquely prescient in its
intersectional exploration of oppression, and endures as a necessary
text for progressive social movements today.
"Agnes
Smedley's memories tasted of hunger." —The New York Times Book
Review
"A tale of
American disinheritance told from the inside out, [this novel] is
essentially about Smedley's struggle to come to spiritual
consciousness in a world of unimaginable cruelty and deprivation. . .
An entire society is limned in the pages of this book. . . The power
of Daughter of Earth lies in the erotic heat which informs
every page of the book, erotic in the original Greek sense of life
force." —The Village Voice
