Of the Ruling of Men

Du Bois's theory of democracy: a history of how the Enlightenment promise of universal suffrage was captured first by industrial capital and then by empire, and an argument that real democracy is impossible while women, workers, and colonized peoples are excluded from rule. Followed by 'The Call,' a prose parable of a woman answering God's call to battle because no man will.

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