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Suzanne La Follette
1893–1983
A sharp, independent voice in American letters, she wrote about feminism, liberty, and politics with unusual boldness for her time. Her work moved between journalism and social criticism, always arguing that women’s freedom was inseparable from individual freedom.
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Concerning Women
by Suzanne La Follette
About the author
Born in Washington state in 1893, Suzanne La Follette became an American journalist, editor, and author best known for linking early feminism with a strong belief in individual liberty. She wrote at a time when debates about women’s rights often focused narrowly on voting or social convention, and she pushed the conversation further toward legal and economic independence.
Her best-known book, Concerning Women (1926), explored the social and political limits placed on women and helped establish her reputation as a distinctive feminist thinker. Over the years she also worked as an editor and contributor for a range of magazines and journals, and she was associated with major libertarian and anti-communist circles in mid-20th-century American intellectual life.
La Follette died in 1983, but her writing still stands out for its clarity and nerve. Readers interested in the history of feminism, civil liberties, and dissenting political thought may find in her work a lively and surprisingly modern perspective.