About the Author

Frances Early is professor of history at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is also co-editor of Athena's Daughters Television's New Women Warriors with Kathleen Kennedy

Reviews

Centered on the examination of the lives of Frances Witherspoon and Tracy Mygatt and their work with the New York Bureau of Legal Advice, Early's book is a well-researched account, using often overlooked papers, of women's political activism during a time of growing militarism and repression of dissent. By analyzing the link between feminism and pacifism, she shows the development of a peace culture and community, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of peace movements in the United States. A compelling look at two women who refused to give in to political injustice. Early's study illuminates the importance of women's anti-war work, but is especially intriguing when it also illustrates gender relations within the subculture of the peace movement. Building on various studies of the women's peace movement and of the gendered discourse of war, Early provides an interesting analysis of the relationship between pacifism and feminism and of the attempt of feminists and radical pacifists to redefine citizenship for men and women in terms other than the traditional 'patriotic Warrior and 'moral mother' ideals.