A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War ITraces the connection between feminist antiwar activism and the emergence of the modern civil liberties movement in WWI America. Documents the formation and history of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice, a mixed-gender organization associated with the feminist- oriented, left-wing pacifist movement of the war years through the lives and deeds of its founders, Frances Witherspoon and Tracy Mygatt. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Free Speech and Personal Behavior | 27 |
Conscriptions Home Front Victims | 60 |
Feminist Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors | 90 |
The Push for Amnesty | 122 |
The Ellis Island Deportees | 155 |
Creating a Peace Culture | 189 |
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