This collection of essays written between 1970 and 2010 covers political subjects as diverse as 17th-century Quaker persecution history, the social impact of Malthus, the self-emancipation of English women, Eleanor Rathbone on the human rights of girls, and German women s resistance to Hitler. The more literary subjects include the social thinking of the English Romantics, Dickens "Great Expectations," Simone Weil s essays attacking militarism, and Virginia Woolf s opposition to the State, as well as contemporary American women poets on the problem of war. But despite all its diversity, this...