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1 online resource |
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Power, politics, and the world |
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Power, politics, and the world.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Lucia Ames Mead's Practical Program for World Organization -- 2. Fannie Fern Andrews and an American-Led World Order -- 3. Florence Guertin Tuttle Advocates for the League of Nations -- 4. Rosika Schwimmer, Lola Maverick Lloyd, and a World Government of the People -- 5. Esther Caukin Brunauer and Collective Security for the World Community -- 6. Mary McLeod Bethune's Plans for a Just Postwar Peace -- 7. Dorothy Kenyon and World Citizenship Through the United Nations -- 8. Edith Wynner and Popular World Government in the Atomic Era -- Conclusion -- Notes |
| Summary |
"Citizens of the World excavates the work of a variety of women-white, Black, radical, moderate, liberal, socialist-who asserted both their right and their responsibility to shape and fully participate in efforts to govern the world. Between 1900 and 1950, many politically active women in the United States advocated for greater geopolitical integration in order to end war. They argued that increasing global interdependence demanded both governmental cooperation and a broader commitment to the international community rather than to nationalist entrenchment, and they believed that ordinary women and men around the world had a responsibility to further that commitment. Over these five decades, some women called for agreements to arbitrate and adjudicate conflicts, others for formal intergovernmental institutions, and still others for a full-fledged world federation. They believed a politically organized world, whatever form it took, was necessary for lasting peace. Despite various differences among them-and there were many-all of these women saw themselves as part of a global effort to end war that required them to act as equal members of an international body politic. In other words, they saw themselves as world citizens"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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World citizenship.
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International organization.
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HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
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International organization
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Women political activists
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World citizenship
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812298574 |
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0812298578 |
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