Further Reading
- Thomas Neville Bonner, Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- Ellen Carol DuBois, Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights (Chapter 12: “Eleanor Flexner and the History of American Feminism”). New York University Press, 1998.
- Kate Weigand, Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women’s Liberation (Reconfiguring American Political History). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
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