Peace as a Woman's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Womenâ s Rights (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)

Alonso, Harriet

ISBN 10: 0815602693 / ISBN 13: 9780815602699

Published by Syracuse University Press (edition First Edition), 1993

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peace as a Woman's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Womenâ s Rights (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815602693
• ISBN 13: 9780815602699
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

A history of the ideologies and personalities of the feminist peace movement in the US. This study explores: connections between militarism and violence against women; women as the ""mothers"" of society; women as naturally responsible citizens; and the desire to be independent of male control.

About the Author

Harriet Hyman Alonso is professor of history at The City College of New York, CUNY, where she currently serves as chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the Center for Worker Education. Her most recent book, Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), won the Warren F. Kuehl Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.