Author: Mary Marcy

Marcy edited a socialist monthly in Chicago and wrote Shop Talks on Economics, which explained Marx in the plainest possible language for people working ten-hour days and sold in the millions in several languages. Women as Sex Vendors, written in 1918 with a collaborator, argues that women are politically conservative because they are economically dependent, and it makes that case in the frank commercial vocabulary of its title and its period. She and her husband put up their property to bail members of a persecuted union, lost it when the defendants fled, and she died by her own hand in 1922 with the debt unresolved.