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Radical Pacifism in Modern America
"Radical Pacificism in Modern America traces cycles of success and decline in the radical wing of the American peace movement, an egalitarian strain of pacificism that stood at the vanguard of anti-militarist 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 pacificist 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...
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