My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich

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Lynne Segal pays tribute to her friend and mentor, socialist feminist Barbara Ehrenreich, who died on 1st September.

Ehrenreich has a distinguished record of political commitment, “stretching back to the heyday of women’s liberation, when she’d left her indelible mark on the movement by battling to preserve within it the revolutionary socialist current initially at the heart of Western feminism.”

A prolific writer, Ehrenreich’s work spanned a whole range of subjects of importance and continued relevance to us all, as Lynne Segal makes clear in this warm appreciation.

“The crucial point for Barbara—which I try, no matter how inadequately, to follow and spread—was that we can find joy in collective resistance.”

This article was originally published by Boston Review on Thu 15 Sep 2022. Read the original here.