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REVOLUTIONARY PACIFISM AND WAR RESISTANCE Jessie Wallace Hughan's “War against War”
Author(s) -
Early Frances H.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0130.1995.tb00236.x
Subject(s) - league , resistance (ecology) , narrative , politics , first world war , world war ii , spanish civil war , political science , sociology , history , law , literature , art , ancient history , ecology , physics , astronomy , biology
This article discusses the antiwar work and pacifist writings of the founder of the War Resisters League. Jessie Wallace Hugh. The intertwining of the biographical and organizational narrative approach to writing history permits the author to explore the interplay of the personal and political in the life of Jessie Hughan. The author argues that Hughan played a central role in the new pacifist movement of the post‐World War I era. This view of Hughan is contextualized in terms of what scholars are now discovering about the interconnections among progressive and left‐wing politics, feminism, and pacifism in the era that spans World War I and World War II.