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French Feminists and Pacifism, 1889–1914: The Evolution of New Visions
Author(s) -
Cooper Sandi E.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0130.2010.00669.x
Subject(s) - vision , enthusiasm , world war ii , political science , first world war , gender studies , spanish civil war , sociology , law , history , ancient history , anthropology , psychology , social psychology
This article addresses two main issues. First, in what ways did the development of a pacifist platform among French women working against the patriarchal assumptions of their world shape a different discourse than the dominant male‐managed peace societies—then the largest on the European continent before World War I. Secondly, how did the progressive members of the French feminist–pacifist community distance themselves from the presumably unchallenged, national enthusiasm for war in 1914, and what impact did that war have on postwar women’s movements.