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Linda K. Schott - Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II (Modern America) - 9780804727464 - V9780804727464
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Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II (Modern America)

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Description for Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II (Modern America) hardcover. This study of the women who led the United States section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in the interwar years argues that the ideas of these women constitute an important addition to our understanding of the intellectual heritage of the United States. Num Pages: 228 pages, 12 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 515.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804727464
SKU
V9780804727464
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99-1

About Linda K. Schott
Linda K. Schott is Associate Professor of History and American Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Gender, at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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