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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Linda K Schott |
| ISBN: | 0804727465 9780804727464 |
| OCLC Number: | 34746032 |
| Description: | ix, 211 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Philosophical foundations: the early ideas of Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch -- Unity among women, 1915 -- Differences among women, 1915-1919 -- Unity within diversity, 1919-1924 -- Nurturing and nonresistance, 1919-1941-- Nonviolence and social justice, 1919-1941-- The implications of reconstructing women's thoughts. |
| Series Title: | Modern America (Stanford, Calif.) |
| Responsibility: | Linda K. Schott. |
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Abstract:
A study of the women who led the United States section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in the interwar years, this book argues that the ideas of these womenthe importance of nurturing, nonviolence, feminism, and a careful balancing of people's differences with their common humanityconstitute an important addition to our understanding of the intellectual heritage of the United States.
Most of these women were well educated and prominent in their chosen fields: they included Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch, the only two United States women to win Nobel Prizes for Peace; Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress; and Dorothy Detzer, the woman who prompted the investigation of the munitions industry in the 1930's. When combined with an understanding of the personal backgrounds of the WIL leaders and placed in the context of early-twentieth-century America, these documents tell us what these women thought was important and why.
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