Siegel Peace on Our Terms

The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55118-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Columbia Studies in International and Global History

Peace on Our Terms is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of women’s activism to the Paris Peace Conference and the critical diplomatic events of 1919. Mona L. Siegel tells the timely story of how female activists transformed women’s rights into a global rallying cry, laying a foundation for generations to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siegel, Mona L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Timeline of International Women’s Activism in 1919
List of Illustrations
Prologue: The Closing Days of the First World War
1. A New Year in Paris: Women’s Rights at the Peace Conference of 1919
2. Winter of Our Discontent: Racial Justice in a New World Order
3. March(ing) in Cairo: Women’s Awakening and the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
4. Springtime in Zurich: Former Enemies in Pursuit of Peace and Freedom
5. May Flowers in China: The Feminist Origins of Chinese Nationalism
6. Autumn on the Potomac: Women Workers and the Quest for Social Justice
Epilogue: Rome, 1923
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mona L. Siegel is professor of history at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914–1940 (2004).