Fighting Fascism at Home and Abroad
Fighting Fascism at Home and Abroad
The Cold War Exile of Martha Dodd
This chapter aims to examine the literary career of Martha Dodd, which has been obscured by the controversy surrounding her. In her novels and short stories, Dodd uses female activists to challenge some of the conventions about femininity in the immediate postwar era. Her work is distinctive among novels from this period because she presents women not simply as domestic goddesses or morality police, but as actors in their own right. The chapter establishes the connections between Dodd’s writings and an emergent Left feminism during World War II and the postwar era. Many of Dodd’s writings reflect the changes in the Communist Party’s approach to the “Woman Question” during World War II and the postwar era. A Left feminist perspective is reflected in most of her work.
Keywords: female activists, Martha Dodd, postwar era, Left feminism, Woman Question
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