Feminism's Influence on Peace History

Authors

  • Frances Early

Keywords:

Peace movement, Pacifism, Historiography, Freminism, War,

Abstract

This essay examines the influence of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship on the evolution of peace history as a field. The author argues that feminist perspectives have helped to transform the way we study and understand women and gender in relation to war and peace in historical and contemporary times.

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Author Biography

Frances Early

Frances Early is a member of the History Department at Mount Saint Vincent University where she teaches North American social history as well as specialized courses for the Women's Studies Department and Peace and Conflict Studies Program. She is the immediate past president of the Peace History Society and has recently published a book, A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I (Syracuse University Press, 1997), which has earned the 1999 Warren Kuehl Award in Peace & International History.

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Published

2000-10-01

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2000): Special Issue: Feminism and Canadian History (25th anniversary volume part one)

Section

Original Research

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