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• 1. Women, Peace and Security: An Introduction
• 2. Women's Activism in the Context of the Security Debate: Theoretical Underpinnings
• 3. The Security Framework in Practice: The Case of SCR 1325
• 4. Women and Children: Comparative Frameworks and Strategies within the Council
• 5. The United Nations Development Fund for Women: Working Its Way into the Security Sector
• 6. The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission: A Litmus Test for Assessing the Status of Women and Security
• 7. Conclusion References.
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This book examines the relationship between women, gender and the international security agenda, exploring the meaning of security in terms of discourse and practice, as well as the larger goals and strategies of the global women's movement. Today, many complex global problems are being located within the security logic. From the environment to HIV/AIDS, state and non-state actors have made a practice out of securitizing issues that are not conventionally seen as such. As most prominently demonstrated by the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2001), activists for women's rights have increasingly framed women's rights and gender inequality as security issues in an attempt to gain access to the international security agenda, particularly in the context of the United Nations. This book explores the nature and implications of the use of security language as a political framework for women, tracing and analyzing the organizational dynamics of women's activism in the United Nations system and how women have come to embrace and been impacted by the security framework, globally and locally. The book argues that, from a feminist and human security perspective, efforts to engender the security discourse have had both a broadening and limiting effect, highlighting reasons to be sceptical of securitization as an inherently beneficial strategy. Four cases studies are used to develop the core themes: (1) the campaign to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325; (2) the strategies utilized by those advocating women's issues in the security arena compared to those advocating for children; (3) the organizational development of the UN Development Fund for Women and how it has come to securitize women; and (4) the activity of the UN Peacebuilding Commission and its challenges in gendering its security approach. The work will be of interest to students of critical security, gender studies, international organizations and international relations in general. Natalie Florea Hudson received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Connecticut and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton. She specializes in gender and international relations, human rights, international security studies, and international law and organization.
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• Responding to the nuclear arms race
• The ribbon begins
• Women, fabric art, and social commentary
• The design and growth of the ribbon project
• Responses to the ribbon idea
• Tying up the nation's capital
• Interpreting the ribbon as women's encoded communication
• Concluding reflections

• Introduction: Reading International Relations through Bodies, Reading the Maternal Body as Political Event
• 1. The Vicissitudes of Life: Women's Complex Entanglement with Peace and War
• 2. Shifting the Gaze from Hysterical Mothers to 'Deadly Dads': Spectacle and the Antinuclear Movement
• 3. (M)others, Biopolitics and the Gulf War
• 4. Grieving Dead Soldiers, Disavowing Loss: Cindy Sheehan and the Im/possibility of the American Antiwar Movement Conclusion: The Maternal Body as Alibi: Understanding the Centrality of the Maternal Body to Sovereign Representation.
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This book traces practices of militarization and resistance that have emerged under the sign of motherhood in US Foreign Policy. Gender, Agency and War examines this discourse against the background of three key moments of American foreign policy formation: the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, the Gulf War of the early 1990s, and the recent invasion of Iraq. For each of these moments the author explores the emergence of a historically specific and emblematic maternalized mode of female embodiment (ranging from the 'hysterical' antinuclear protester to the figure of 'Supermom'), in order to shed light onto the various practices which define and enable expressions of American sovereignty. In so doing, the text argues that the emergence of particular raced, gendered, and maternalized bodies ought not to be read as merely tangential to affairs of state, but as instantiations of global politics. This work urges an approach that rereads the body as an 'event' - with significant implications for the ways in which international politics and gender are currently understood. This book will be of much interest to students of gender politics, critical security studies, US foreign policy and IR in general.
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• Bold beginnings : the first ten years, 1915-25
• In search of the perfect Black peace activist, 1915-45
• Building coalitions while avoiding confrontation, 1928-41
• Race-ing domestic peace, 1915-45
• Race-ing international peace, 1915-45
• A new generation of peace activists : waging different battles in unpredictable times, 1945-60
• Redefining racial justice : here, there and everywhere, 1960-1975
• Conclusion.

Just as women changed the direction and agenda of the peace movement when they became progressively more involved in an all-male club, black women altered a cause that had previously lacked racial diversity when they were first granted admission to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1915. As Joyce Blackwell illustrates in this first study of collective black peace activism, the increased presence of black women in the WILPF over the next sixty years brought to the movement historical experiences shaped by societal racism. No Peace Without Freedom: Race and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1975 explores how black women, fueled by the desire to eradicate racial injustice, compelled the white leadership of the WILPF to revisit its own conceptions of peace and freedom. Blackwell offers a renewed examination of peace movements in American history, one that points out the implications of black women's participation for the study of social activism, African American history, and women's history. Blackwell considers when and why black women joined the WILPF, why so few of them were interested in the organization, and what the small number who did join had in common with their white counterparts. She also shows how the WILPF, frustrated at its inability to successfully appeal to black women, established a controversial interracial committee to deal with the dilemma of recruiting black women while attempting to maintain all of its white members. Tracing the black activists' peace reform activities on an international level during from World War I to the end of the Vietnam War, No Peace Without Freedom examines the links black activists established within the African American community as well as the connections they made with peoples of the black Diaspora and later with colonized people irrespective of race.
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• African American women and the search for peace and freedom
• Race and the social thought of white women in the WILPF
• Philadelphia: forging a national model of interracial peace work
• Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Baltimore: extending the network of interracial peace work
• Conclusion.

The history of the women's national peace movement 1915-1940.
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• American Doughboys and German Frauleins: Securing Patriarchy and Privilege in the Occupied Rhineland Imperialism and Postwar Reconciliation: The International and Transnational "Rhineland Horror" Campaign "What to Do with the Germans?": American Exceptionalism and German-American Reconciliation Women Activists in the Postwar World: Gender, Reconciliation, and Humanitarian Aid Binding up "Bitter Wounds": Gender, Nationalism, and Reconciliation on the Home Front in Germany and in the United States.
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This book, the first to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation, examines how patriarchy and the international relations system operated simultaneously to ensure postwar male privilege.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Organization Names Introduction
• 1 "We Jewish Women Should Be Especially Interested in Our New Citizenship": American Jewish Women and the Suffrage Movement 2 "I Started to Get Smart, Not to Have So Many Children": The American Jewish Community and the Early Years of the Birth Control Movement 3 "We United with Our Sisters of Other Faiths in Petitioning for Peace": Jewish Women, Peace Activism, and Acculturation 4 "They Have Been the Pioneers": American Jewish Women and the Mainstreaming of Birth Control 5 "Where the Yellow Star Is": American Jewish Women, the Peace Movement, and Jewish Identity during the 1930s and World War II Conclusion Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index About the Author.
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Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace explores the social and political activism of American Jewish women from approximately 1890 to the beginnings of World War II. Written in an engaging style, the book demonstrates that no history of the birth control, suffrage, or peace movements in the United States is complete without analyzing the impact of Jewish women's presence. The volume is based on years of extensive primary source research in more than a dozen archives and among hundreds of primary sources, many of which have previously never been seen. Voluminous personal papers and institutional records paint a vivid picture of a world in which both middle-class and working-class American Jewish women were consistently and publicly engaged in all the major issues of their day and worked closely with their non-Jewish counterparts on behalf of activist causes. This extraordinarily well researched volume makes a unique contribution to the study of modern women's history, modern Jewish history, and the history of American social movements.
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• African American women and the search for peace and freedom
• Race and the social thought of white women in the WILPF
• Philadelphia : forging a national model of interracial peace work
• Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Baltimore : extending the network of interracial peace work
• Conclusion.

"A Band of Noble Women brings together the histories of the women's peace movement and the black women's club and social reform movement in a story of community and consciousness building between the world wars. Believing that achievement of improved race relations was a central step in establishing world peace, African American and white women initiated new political alliances that challenged the practices of Jim Crow segregation and promoted the leadership of women in transnational politics. Under the auspices of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), they united the artistic agenda of the Harlem Renaissance, suffrage-era organizing tactics, and contemporary debates on race in their efforts to expand women's influence on the politics of war and peace."

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Organization Names Introduction
• 1 "We Jewish Women Should Be Especially Interested in Our New Citizenship": American Jewish Women and the Suffrage Movement 2 "I Started to Get Smart, Not to Have So Many Children": The American Jewish Community and the Early Years of the Birth Control Movement 3 "We United with Our Sisters of Other Faiths in Petitioning for Peace": Jewish Women, Peace Activism, and Acculturation 4 "They Have Been the Pioneers": American Jewish Women and the Mainstreaming of Birth Control 5 "Where the Yellow Star Is": American Jewish Women, the Peace Movement, and Jewish Identity during the 1930s and World War II Conclusion Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index About the Author.
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Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Women's Studies Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace explores the social andpolitical activism of American Jewish women from approximately1890 to the beginnings of World War II. Written in an engaging style, the book demonstrates that no historyof the birth control, suffrage, or peace movements in the UnitedStates is complete without analyzing the impact of Jewish women'spresence. The volume is based on years of extensive primarysource research in more than a dozen archives and among hundredsof primary sources, many of which have previously neverbeen seen. Voluminous personal papers and institutional recordspaint a vivid picture of a world in which both middle-class andworking-class American Jewish women were consistently andpublicly engaged in all the major issues of their day and workedclosely with their non-Jewish counterparts on behalf of activistcauses. This extraordinarily well researched volume makes a unique contributionto the study of modern women's history, modern Jewishhistory, and the history of American social movements.
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