Mary Inman

(1894 - 1985)

Mary Inman was a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America in the 1930s, and in 1939 she wrote a series of articles on women’s rights for the Daily People’s World. Her arguments, which advanced a theory of production centered on women, caused controversy within the party; one critic dismissed her work this way: “Granted that a housewife’s work is useful. So is the labor of a shoemaker.” Inman eventually resigned and published her pamphlet Thirteen Years of CPUSA Misleadership on the Woman Question in 1949.