En Prison Pour la Liberte!

Doris Stevens (c1892 1963) was a front line participant in the radical wing of the American woman suffrage movement. Born in Nebraska, Stevens graduated from Oberlin College and worked on suffrage campaigns in Ohio, Montana, Michigan and New York. She became a leading activist on a national and international scene with the Congressional Union and the National Woman's Party. In 1917 she and other militant American suffragists were arrested for picketing The White House. The women were thrown in prison at Occoquan workhouse in Virginia, where they were force fed. Jailed for Freedom details these horrors as experienced first hand by Stevens herself. Her book also contains much on the politics and leading personalities of the suffrage movement such as Alice Paul. En Prison Pour La Liberte! is the scarce French edition of this often overlooked book which is among the most important autobiograpical publications written by an American feminist heavily involved suffrage struggle. Stevens spent a considerable amount of time in France with Alva Belmont and working with international organizations on behalf of women's rights. In 1928 she was arrested for trying to deliver an equal rights treaty to delegates at a Paris convention.