Going Global: New Trajectories in U.S. Women's History

In 1915, American Jane Addams, together with 1,300 women from around the world, founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, an organization dedicated to fostering understanding, preventing war, and laying the foundations for a permanent peace. Addams believed that women in t...

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Published in:The History teacher (Long Beach, Calif.) Calif.), 2010-02, Vol.43 (2), p.169-189
Main Author: Frederickson, Mary E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Change
Comparative Analysis
Females
Feminism
Global Approach
Historians
Historiography
History
History instruction
International Organizations
Labor unions
Trajectories
United States History
Womens history
Womens rights
Womens rights movements
Womens suffrage movements
Working women
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Summary:In 1915, American Jane Addams, together with 1,300 women from around the world, founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, an organization dedicated to fostering understanding, preventing war, and laying the foundations for a permanent peace. Addams believed that women in the United States needed to recognize the interdependence of women around the globe in terms of promoting peace, but also regarding economic justice, social activism, and a sense of collective political responsibility. In the twenty-first century, the global perspective adopted by Jane Addams, and those who followed in her footsteps across the years, provides a powerful model for a theoretical paradigm shift in the way women's history in the United States has been written and taught since the 1970s. In this article, the author discusses new trajectories in U.S. women's history from a global perspective. (Contains 6 figures and 29 notes.)
ISSN:0018-2745