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“Dissenters from the Religion of Patriotism”:[Note 1. Fanny Bixby Spencer, The Jazz of Patriotism: An Anti‐war ...] Women's Poetic Responses to World War I in the Oakland ( CA ) World
Author(s) -
Brown Kathleen A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/pech.12111
Subject(s) - patriotism , poetry , newspaper , resistance (ecology) , world war ii , religious studies , first world war , history , literature , gender studies , sociology , art , political science , media studies , law , philosophy , ancient history , politics , ecology , biology
This article examines the pacifist, nonresistant, and socialist women who published poetry in the California Socialist Party's newspaper, the Oakland World . These women—Mary Laughlin, Edna Helm, Caroline Wadsworth Turner, Fanny Bixby, Dora V.B. Chapple Hagemeyer, Ruby Herman, Ruth Le Prade, Anna Louise Strong—are unfortunately absent from the otherwise excellent histories of women's resistance to World War I. This examination of the work of eight women poet‐activists who published in the World from April 1917 to April 1918 remedies this omission by revealing their significant influence on wartime discourse.