Suzanne La Follette
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Suzanne Clara La Follette (June 24, 1893-April 23, 1983) was an American journalist, and an author who advocated for libertarian feminism in the first half of the 20th century.
She was born in Washington state into the politically prominent La Follette family. Her father was U.S. Congressman William La Follette; her brother was Chester La Follette, a painter.
Her full-length book, Concerning Women, broke ground in the 1920s, but went out of print for a second time after a 1972 reprint in the Arno Press American Women series. In 1973, an excerpt entitled "Beware the State" was included in The Feminist Papers, an anthology edited by Alice Rossi.
In the 1930s, LaFollette served as secretary for the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, also known as the Dewey Committee for its chairman educator, John Dewey. LaFollette wrote the summary of the Committee's findings after holding an investigative meeting in Mexico where Trotsky was in exile. Many of the committee's members, like LaFollette, Carlo Tresca, and Dewey were not Trotskyists, but consisted of anti-Stalinist socialists, progressives and liberals.
She helped to found the magazines The Freeman edited by Albert Jay Nock and National Review. Sharon Presley reports (in "The Freewoman," see external link) that "in 1964, when the New York Conservative Party, of which she was a co-founder, came out in favor of anti-abortion laws, she demanded that her name be dropped from the Party's letterhead - and it was."
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