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Building a Just and Secure World: Popular Front Women's Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the 1960s

Building a Just and Secure World: Popular Front Women's Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the 1960s


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Building a Just and Secure World highlights women's activism, often peripheral and one-dimensional in peace movement historiography which  tends to dramatize men's antiwar and antinuclear activism in national organizations.  In Chicago, an urban center of anti-war and civil rights activism, a generation of middle-aged women leaders came to their involvement in the movement through previous experience in mixed-sex Leftist movements and local civil rights campaigns.  Participant historians of Sixties New Left, peace, and feminist movements of the Sixties have argued that the Old Left was defunct and the younger generation re-energized socialism in the early 1960s. These historians characterized Popular Front leftists as anticommunist cold war liberals who had abandoned youthful revolutionary aspirations for the reformist New Deal welfare state.  Contrary to the arguments the Popular Front politics were defunct, Schneidhorst joins historians who argue the Popular Front generation continued to promote progressive and radical goals into the 1960s.

Table of Contents:
Prologue 1. Women for Peace and the Revitalization of Citizen Activism: 1960 - 1962 2.  One Thing Leads to Another: From the Test Ban Treaty to Multi-Issue Peace Politics: 1963-1964 3. Activism against the Vietnam War and the Dangers of Cold War Anticommunism, 1963 - 1965 4. The YWCA and Older Women's Activism: Women Mobilized for Change and Racial Justice in Chicago, 1965 - 1967 5. Modeling a New Social Vision: A Response to Law and Order, 1967-1968 6. Conclusion: Coming into Their Own: The Anti-war Movement from 1969 - 1972

About the Author :
Amy C. Schneidhorst, Ph.D. has worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University and Alma College, USA.  She is the author of the article, "'Little Old Ladies and Dangerous Women': Women's Peace and Social Justice Activism in Chicago, 1961-1973," in Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research (July 2001) and an active community activist.

Review :
"By recovering the decades spanning peace and civil rights activism of Popular Front women, Amy Schneidhorst pounds another nail into the coffin of generational conflict  as the defining motif of the 1960s.  The label, "just a housewife," will never be the same after this thoroughly researched and fascinating local history of Women for Peace and Women Mobilized for Change and racial justice  and the ways that black and white working-class women defied the Daley machine, talked with their Vietnamese counterparts, and protested political repression at home and war abroad." - Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara "In Building a Just and Secure World, Amy Schneidhorst has written an exciting book on Chicago women's peace and justice activism in the 1960s.  Skillfully using archival sources and oral histories, Schneidhorst shows how women in four women's organizations led local campaigns to advance civil rights and oppose nuclear weapons, the Vietnam War, and political repression by the Daley machine.  By demonstrating how middle-aged Popular Front women activists, who came of age during the World War II era, influenced a new generation of 1960s women activists and the women's grassroots peace and justice movements that they led, Schneidhorst reveals important links between the Old Left and New Left.  This impressive, well-written, and highly recommended book makes significant contributions to the literature on the 1960s, women's studies, social movements, peace history, and Chicago history." - Scott H. Bennett, Professor of History, Georgian Court University, Former President, Peace History Society  


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781441191854
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 272
  • ISBN-10: 1441191852
  • Publisher Date: 17 Nov 2011
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Popular Front Women's Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the 1960s


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