Description
Frances H. Early traces the relationship between feminist antiwar activism and the emergence of the brand new civil liberties movement in World War I The usa. Throughout the lives and deeds of Frances Witherspoon and Tracy Mygatt, Early provides a detailed account of the activities 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. A World Without War explores the role of women’s political activism all over an era of militarism and social repression. Early shows how a small coalition of activists struggled to reveal the antidemocratic forces of the wartime state, including its brutal remedy of conscientious objectors. She presents the private dimension to pacifist work, as men and women disrupted conventional wartime notions of femininity and masculinity in an effort to fashioning nonviolent gender identities.