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Hélène Brion was a French militant feminist, syndicalist, pacifist, socialist, and communist who led a small teacher’s union, a subsidiary of the General Confederation of Labor, in the years leading up to World War I. This project explores Brion’s political development in the period 1917-1921, as she faced a well-publicized trial for “defeatism” and began to publish her self-edited newspaper La ... read moreLutte Féministe. Four manuscripts are of particular interest (found at the Sylvia Beach Archives in Princeton, NJ), as they have been generally overlooked in scholarly accounts of her activism. This paper analyzes the relationship between Brion’s feminism and her leftist militancy as they contributed to her profound alienation from both movements. Ultimately, her pivot to communism in 1920, though short-lived, was the culmination of a growing isolation from mainstream activism between 1917-1921.read less
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