Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928

  • Annette Rubenstein talks to Blanch Cook about her book on Crystal Eastman

    Annette Rubinstein, editor of Science and Society, literary historian and critic, and veteran radical political activist, speaks with Blanche Cook, Associate professor at John Jay College and author of a recent book on the life and writings of Crystal Eastman, a socialist and feminist active during the early part of the twentieth century. Note “Use…

  • Blanche Cooke on Crystal Eastman

    Blanche Cooke talks about the life and work of Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), a radical, feminist, and socialist, and an attorney who graduated from the NYU law school in 1907. She was the first women New York State commissioner advocating for workers compensation, and she founded the Women’s International Peace Movement, now called the Women’s International…