With keen insight, Perry illuminates the origins of the broader fight for women's unity and equality.
Elisabeth Israels Perry is professor emeritus of history and women's and gender studies at Saint Louis University. She has published extensively on American women's history, and is the author of Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith, a biography of her grandmother and one of the original "Women of the La Guardia Administration."