Decentering the West in the History of Feminism: Reclaiming Russian Influence on US Feminism and Black Women Radicals in the Early 20th Century

This article takes a fresh look on twentieth-century US feminist history for the
international classroom and beyond. It focuses on the engagements of US feminists with Russian revolutionary thought and the pivotal role that early Russian feminists and the 1917 Russian Revolution played for both the US Women’s Suffrage movement, and the emerging intersectional Black feminist thought.