Annelise OrleckANNELISE ORLECK is associate professor of history and women's studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the U.S. (1995) and co-editor of The Politics of Motherhood Activist Voices from Left to Right (1997). Her next book is a study of women and welfare activism in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a native of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, home to a large community of Soviet Jewish Americans.
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