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Reconstructing Women's Thoughts - The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II (Hardcover)
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Reconstructing Women's Thoughts - The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II (Hardcover)
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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 women--the
importance of nurturing, nonviolence, feminism, and a careful
balancing of people's differences with their common
humanity--constitute 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. The ideas of these women were not
usually expressed in forms conventionally studied by intellectual
historians. On the whole, their ideas must be teased out of
organizational records, statements of principle and policy, and
personal correspondence. 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.
The ideas of the WIL leaders are also analyzed in the context of
the intellectual themes of Victorianism and modernism. Our
understanding of these themes has been based largely on the work of
privileged European and American men, and the ideas of women often
fit uncomfortably into these traditional categories. A
reconstruction of the ideas of the WIL leaders suggests that
historians have overlooked an important, alternative intellectual
tradition in the United States. To understand and appreciate
women's thoughts, we must dissolve the old constructs and let new,
multifaceted ones replace them.
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