Feminists in Greenwich Village had begun bobbing their hair in 1912. In 1915, it was still radical. The idea, it seems, came from Russia, the New York Times reported. The intellectual women of that country were revolutionaries. For convenience in disguising themselves when the police trailed them, they cropped their hair.2 Holloway was something of a revolutionary, too.
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- Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power