Women at the Hague
Author : Jane Addams
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 1915
Category : International Congress of Women
ISBN :
Peace on Our Terms
Author : Mona L. Siegel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0231551185
Book Description
In the watershed year of 1919, world leaders met in Paris, promising to build a new international order rooted in democracy and social justice. Female activists demanded that statesmen live up to their word. Excluded from the negotiating table, women met separately, crafted their own agendas, and captured global headlines with a message that was both straightforward and revolutionary: enduring peace depended as much on recognition of the fundamental humanity and equality of all people—regardless of sex, race, class, or creed—as on respect for the sovereignty of independent states. Peace on Our Terms follows dozens of remarkable women from Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia as they crossed oceans and continents; commanded meeting halls in Paris, Zurich, and Washington; and marched in the streets of Cairo and Beijing. Mona L. Siegel’s sweeping global account of international organizing highlights how Egyptian and Chinese nationalists, Western and Japanese labor feminists, white Western suffragists, and African American civil rights advocates worked in tandem to advance women’s rights. Despite significant resistance, these pathbreaking women left their mark on emerging democratic constitutions and new institutions of global governance. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace on Our Terms is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of women’s activism to the Paris Peace Conference and the critical diplomatic events of 1919. Siegel tells the timely story of how female activists transformed women’s rights into a global rallying cry, laying a foundation for generations to come.
International Congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Author : Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Women and peace
ISBN :
Book Description
Peace and Bread in Time of War
Author : Jane Addams
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 1922
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Book Description
Rosa Manus (1881-1942)
Author : Myriam Everard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004333185
Book Description
Rosa Manus (1881–1942) uncovers the life of Dutch feminist and peace activist Rosa Manus, co-founder of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, vice-president of the International Alliance of Women, and founding president of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement (IAV) in Amsterdam, revealing its rootedness in Manus’s radical secular Jewishness. Because the Nazis looted the IAV (1940) including Manus’s large personal archive, and subsequently arrested (1941) and murdered her (1942), Rosa Manus has been almost unknown to later generations. This collective biography offers essays based on new and in-depth research on pictures and documents from her archives, returned to Amsterdam in 2003, as well as other primary sources. It thus restores Manus to the history from which the Nazis attempted to erase her. Contributors include: Margot Badran, Mineke Bosch, Ellen Carol DuBois, Myriam Everard, Karen Garner, Francisca de Haan, Dagmar Wernitznig, and Annika Wilmers. "The volume touches on all of the important themes of that history—the centrality of peace activism, the impact of the world wars and the rise of fascism, the tensions over imperialism and nationalist resistance in colonized countries, the importance of resources to the persistence of the movement, the vital glue of intimate relationships—and brings to the fore additional ones, including the role of Jewish women, the centrality of Dutch feminists in transnational feminism, and the struggle over preserving the history of the movement." - Leila J. Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara, in: Women's History Review (2018)
13th International Congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Author : Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Liberty
ISBN :
Book Description
War and Gender
Author : Joshua S. Goldstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521001809
Book Description
Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of our state of knowledge, Joshua Goldstein assesses the possible explanations for the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across cultures. Topics covered include the history of women who did fight and fought well, the complex role of testosterone in men's social behaviours, and the construction of masculinity and femininity in the shadow of war. Goldstein concludes that killing in war does not come naturally for either gender, and that gender norms often shape men, women, and children to the needs of the war system. lllustrated with photographs, drawings, and graphics, and drawing from scholarship spanning six academic disciplines, this book provides a unique study of a fascinating issue.
XIth International Congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at Copenhagen, Christiansborg Castle, August 15th-19th, 1949
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Women and peace
ISBN :
Book Description
Intelligent Compassion
Author : Catia Cecilia Confortini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0199845239
Book Description
Intelligent Compassion traces changes in the ideas and policies of the longest-living international women's organization between 1945 and 1975. Focusing on disarmament, decolonization and the Middle East, it finds answers to IR questions about the possibility of emancipatory agency in the theoretical practices of women peace activists.
It's Up to the Women
Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1568585950
Book Description
"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today.
