women's experiences, feminist thought, and international relations
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bianchi, Bruna > (ed.)
- Creator
- Ludbrook, Geraldine > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- WER 1G 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, eerste wereldoorlog, dagelijks leven, acties, vredesbeweging, vrouwenkiesrecht, vrouwenorganisaties, WILPF, congressen, historisch, Italië, Oostenrijk, Polen, Duitsland, Frankrijk, internationaal, 20e eeuw, 1910-1919, 1920-1929
- Description
- This volume is a collection of contributions centered around three main themes. The first part, brings together first-hand accounts from women’s lives as they face the horrors of war, drawn mainly from original sources such as diaries, letters, memoirs and writings. The second explores the lives and thought of several women activists who challenged inequalities and sought to create new opportunities for women, contributing to the definition of a transnational culture of peace. The final section examines the work of a group of women who saw the outbreak of the First World War and the emergence of an international women’s movement for peace as an opportunity to act for their personal emancipation, and, in some cases, for a different idea of politics. The volume provides a selection of contributions from little-known European contexts such as Italy, Poland, and Austria. The presence and contribution of African-American women, which has been neglected in the history of women’s pacifism, is also explored. Particular attention is given to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and to the International Congress of Women, held in The Hague in 1915. Virginia Woolf, Bertha von Suttner, Rosa Mayreder, Rosika Schwimmer, Yella Hertzka,