ID: 8432  -  Laura Coltelli  -  Pisa Type: Text Format: Medium: Book Extent: Identifier: ISBN 0-931122-97-X pbk Source: Title: The Girl Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Role: Name: Created: Date: Issued Date: Modified in/on: 1990 in/on: 1978 Language: English Rights: 1978,1990 Meridel LeSueur Relation: Qualifier: Coverage: Place: St. Paul, Minnesota Time: 1930s Description: novel Subjects: Class Subjects: Gender/Sexuality Subjects: Gender/Sexuality Subjects: Identity Subjects: Internationalism/Transnationalism Subjects: Class Subjects: Gender/Sexuality Keywords: politics Keywords: pregnancy Keywords: feminism Keywords: communism Keywords: communism Keywords: motherhood Query Subject+Keyword: (Class, politics) Query Subject+Keyword: (Gender/Sexuality, pregnancy) Query Subject+Keyword: (Gender/Sexuality, feminism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, communism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Internationalism/Transnationalism, communism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Class, motherhood) Comment: Completed in 1939 and revised in 1978, The Girl focuses on the regerative power of pregnancy and birth and on the women's bonding with one another as the key to survival in a world of male violence, linking values of communality (in feminine forms) and mass action to a growing awareness of the political and social powers that gorvern women's lives. According to LeSueur it was a collective work: we had a writer's group of women in The Workers' Alliance and we met everynight to raise our miserable circumstances to the level of sagas, poetry, cry-outs