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.