Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom

by Jacqueline L. Castledine

In recognizing the relation between gender, race, and class oppression, American women of the postwar Progressive Party made the claim that peace required not merely the absence of violence, but also the presence of social and political equality. For progressive women, peace was the essential thread that connected the various aspects of their activist agendas. This study maps the routes taken by postwar popular front women activists into peace and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025203726X
• ISBN13: 9780252037269
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"