Author : Amy C. Schneidhorst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441193553
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Book Synopsis Building a Just and Secure World by : Amy C. Schneidhorst
Download or read book Building a Just and Secure World written by Amy C. Schneidhorst and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.