Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall

About the Author

Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall is the author of Words on Fire: The Writings and Biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and, with Elizabeth Ewen, of Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened.

Linda Gordon is the author of The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction and Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare.

Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall and Linda Gordon first met in 1971 at a women’s liberation demonstration and have been working together ever since. Both teach women’s history at universities — Baxandall at SUNY/College at Old Westbury, Gordon at NYU — both are mothers, and both eagerly await the new feminist revival.