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Author |
: Amy Swerdlow |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 1993-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226786366 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226786360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Strike for Peace by : Amy Swerdlow
Women Strike for Peace is the only historical account of this ground-breaking women's movement. Amy Swerdlow, a founding member of WSP, restores to the historical record a significant chapter on American politics and women's studies. Weaving together narrative and analysis, she traces WSP's triumphs, problems, and legacy for the women's movement and American society. Women Strike for Peace began on November 1, 1961, when thousands of white, middle-class women walked out of their kitchens and off their jobs in a one-day protest against Soviet and American nuclear policies. The protest led to a national organization of women who fought against nuclear arms and U.S. intervention in Vietnam. While maintaining traditional maternal and feminine roles, members of WSP effectively challenged national policies—defeating a proposal for a NATO nuclear fleet, withstanding an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and sending one of its leaders to Congress as a peace candidate. As a study of a dissident group grounded in prescribed female culture, and the struggle of its members to avoid being trapped within that culture, this book adds a crucial new dimension to women's studies. In addition, this account of WSP's success as a grass roots, nonhierarchical movement will be of great interest to historians, political scientists, and anyone interested in peace studies or conflict resolution. "Swerdlow has re-created a unique piece of American political history, a chapter of the international peace movement, and an origin of the modern feminist movement. No historian, activist, or self-respecting woman should be without Women Strike for Peace. It shows not only how one group of women created change, but also how they inevitably changed themselves."—Gloria Steinem
Author |
: Joshua S. Goldstein |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 2003-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521001803 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521001809 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis War and Gender by : Joshua S. Goldstein
Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of our state of knowledge, Joshua Goldstein assesses the possible explanations for the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across cultures. Topics covered include the history of women who did fight and fought well, the complex role of testosterone in men's social behaviours, and the construction of masculinity and femininity in the shadow of war. Goldstein concludes that killing in war does not come naturally for either gender, and that gender norms often shape men, women, and children to the needs of the war system. lllustrated with photographs, drawings, and graphics, and drawing from scholarship spanning six academic disciplines, this book provides a unique study of a fascinating issue.
Author |
: Rebecca Solnit |
Publisher |
: Haymarket Books |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2014-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608464579 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608464571 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Men Explain Things to Me by : Rebecca Solnit
The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect “antidote to mansplaining” (The Stranger). In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note— because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, “He’s trying to kill me!” This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women. “In this series of personal but unsentimental essays, Solnit gives succinct shorthand to a familiar female experience that before had gone unarticulated, perhaps even unrecognized.” —The New York Times “Essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic “This slim book hums with power and wit.” —Boston Globe “Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on feminism and contemporary society.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Essential.” —Marketplace “Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions.” —Salon
Author |
: Tiyi Makeda Morris |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820347318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820347310 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi by : Tiyi Makeda Morris
Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Originally instated in 1961 to sustain the civil rights movement, the organization also revitalized black women's social and political activism in the state through its diverse agenda and grassroots approach.
Author |
: Ethel Barol Taylor |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076002274863 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis We Made a Difference by : Ethel Barol Taylor
One of the founding members of Women Strike for Peace recalls the origins of this group, the Vietnam War era & her personal involvement with the peace movement.
Author |
: Holly J. McCammon |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 841 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190204204 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190204206 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism by : Holly J. McCammon
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism provides a comprehensive examination of scholarly research and knowledge on a variety of aspects of women's collective activism in the United States, tracing both continuities and critical changes over time.
Author |
: Andy Blunden |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2016-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004319639 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004319638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origins of Collective Decision Making by : Andy Blunden
In The Origins of Collective Decision Making, Andy Blunden identifies three paradigms of collective decision making – Counsel, Majority and Consensus, discovers their origins in traditional, medieval and modern times, and traces their evolution over centuries up to the present. The study reveals that these three paradigms have an ethical foundation, deeply rooted in historical experiences. The narrative takes the reader into the very moments when individual leaders and organisers made the crucial developments in white heat of critical moments in history, such as the English Revolution of the 1640s, the Chartist Movement of the 1840s and the early Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This history provides a valuable resource for resolving current social movement conflict over decision making.
Author |
: Sara E. Davies |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 921 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190638276 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190638273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security by : Sara E. Davies
Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is an international policy framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on women and girls, including protection against sexual and gender-based violence, promotion of women's participation in peace and security processes and support for women's roles as peace builders in the prevention of conflict and rebuilding of societies after conflict. The handbook addresses the concepts and early history behind WPS; international institutions involved with the WPS agenda; the implementation of WPS in conflict prevention and connections between WPS and other UN resolutions and agendas.
Author |
: Amy Swerdlow |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1993-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226786358 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226786353 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Strike for Peace by : Amy Swerdlow
Foreword by Catharine R. StimpsonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Raising a Hue and Cry"2. Prelude to a Peace Strike3. Who Are These Women?4. Organizing a "Nonorganization"5. Ladies' Day at the Capitol6. A Not-so-funny Thing Happened on the Way to Disarmament7. "The Women's Vote Is the Peace Vote"8. Not Our Sons, Not Your Sons, Not Their Sons: Hell, No, We Won't Let Them Go!9. We Have Met the Enemy--and They Are Our Sisters!ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author |
: Betty Friedan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 014013655X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780140136555 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Feminine Mystique by : Betty Friedan
This novel was the major inspiration for the Women's Movement and continues to be a powerful and illuminating analysis of the position of women in Western society___