Columbia University Press
Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War
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- Mona L Siegel
- Columbia University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780231195102
- 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches
- 1.35 pounds
- History > Women
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Peace on Our Terms follows dozens of remarkable women from Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia as they crossed oceans and continents; commanded meeting halls in Paris, Zurich, and Washington; and marched in the streets of Cairo and Beijing. Mona L. Siegel's sweeping global account of international organizing highlights how Egyptian and Chinese nationalists, Western and Japanese labor feminists, white Western suffragists, and African American civil rights advocates worked in tandem to advance women's rights. Despite significant resistance, these pathbreaking women left their mark on emerging democratic constitutions and new institutions of global governance. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace on Our Terms is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of women's activism to the Paris Peace Conference and the critical diplomatic events of 1919. Siegel tells the timely story of how female activists transformed women's rights into a global rallying cry, laying a foundation for generations to come.
Author Bio
Mona L. Siegel is professor of history at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914–1940 (2004).
She was awarded Outstanding Scholarly and Creative Activity Award, California State University, Sacramento (2014-15),DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History for the best article on a topic related to peace history (2011-12), History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award (2006), and Women's Studies University League Award for Excellence in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin (1993).
Research Interests
Western Civilization, 1500-Present
World Civilizations, 1500-Present
Democracy and Human Rights in the Era of the French Revolution
Women in Western History, 1500-Present
Pacifists, Warriors, Suffragists and Spies: International Female Activism in the Early Twentieth Century
Graduate Seminar - History and Theory
Graduate Readings Seminars (topics vary by semester and touch on themes in modern European history and gender history)
Graduate Seminar - History and Memory
Graduate Seminar - Teaching of History in College
Source: California State University, Sacramento
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