The Working Woman. Vol. 5 No. 11. December, 1934.

Contents: Homework by Rose Wortis, The Scottsboro Mothers Look to You by Anna Damon, Do Pills Work?-Can They Bring On the Menses? by Carlotta Legas, Solidarity Forever! Women of Hillsboro, Illinois by Beatrice Marcus Pointers to Our Women Readers by Business Manager, Guards of the by Harvest S. Tretyakov, Silent Night-Ho-oly Night by Sasha Small, The Working Woman Contest, Over the Back Fence by Janet Freeling, In Factory and Office, You’re Telling Me! by Judith Block, Beauty Tips by Lindy O’Bryan, Household Corner and Warm Gilet by Frances Oliver, Fashion Letter: How to Make a Hat by Gwen Barde, Advance News!

The Working Woman, ‘A Paper for Working Women, Farm Women, and Working-Class Housewives,’ was first published monthly by the Communist Party USA Central Committee Women’s Department from 1929 to 1935, continuing until 1937. It was the first official English-language paper of a Socialist or Communist Party specifically for women (there had been many independent such papers). At first a newspaper and very much an exponent of ‘Third Period’ politics, it played particular attention to Black women, long invisible in the left press. In addition, the magazine covered home-life, women’s health and women’s history, trade union and unemployment struggles, Party activities, as well poems and short stories. The newspaper became a magazine in 1933, and in late 1935 it was folded into The Woman Today which sought to compete with bourgeois women’s magazines in the Popular Front era. The Woman today published until 1937. During its run editors included Isobel Walker Soule, Elinor Curtis, and Margaret Cowl among others.

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