Description
Book SynopsisRadical Pacifism in Modern America traces cycles of success and decline in the radical wing of the American peace movement, an egalitarian strain of pacifism that stood at the vanguard of antimilitarist organizing and American radical dissent from 1940 to 1970.
Using traditional archival material and oral history sources, Marian Mollin examines how gender and race shaped and limited the political efforts of radical pacifist women and men, highlighting how activists linked pacifism to militant masculinity and privileged the priorities of its predominantly white members. In spite of the invisibility that this framework imposed on activist women, the history of this movement belies accounts that relegate women to the margins of American radicalism and mixed-sex political efforts. Motivated by a strong egalitarianism, radical pacifist women rejected separatist organizing strategies and, instead, worked alongside men at the front lines of the struggle to construct a new parad
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The War for Total Brotherhood
Chapter 2: The Peacemakers' Alternative Vision
Chapter 3: Familialism and the Struggle Against the Bomb
Chapter 4: Reviving the Compact of Brotherhood
Chapter 5: Reversing the Traditional Pattern
Chapter 6: No Bars to Manhood
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
