"Women's ways in war:" The feminist pacifism of the New York City Woman's Peace Party

Frontiers | January 1, 1997| | Copyright

Soon after the European war exploded in 1914, the first feminist peace organization in U.S. history, the Woman's Peace Party (WPP) was formed. Headquartered in Chicago, the WPP included separate state and local branches.1 In 1915, the national WPP advanced a platform that argued that "the mother half of humanity" should be consulted on issues of war and peace, and that "women be given a share in deciding between war and peace in all the courts of high debate-within the home, the school, the church, the industrial order and the state." Although neither President Wilson nor the U.S. Congress ...

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