DOC The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader by Michael Barton; Larry M. Logue in History

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Frances H. Early traces the connection between feminist antiwar activism and the emergence of the modern civil liberties movement in World War I America. Through the lives and deeds of Frances Witherspoon and Tracy Mygatt; Early provides a detailed account of the activities of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice; a mixed-gender organization associated with the feminist-oriented; left-wing pacifist movement of the war years. A World Without War explores the role of women's political activism during an era of militarism and social repression. Early shows how a small coalition of activists struggled to expose the antidemocratic forces of the wartime state; including its brutal treatment of conscientious objectors. She presents the personal dimension to pacifist work; as women and men disrupted conventional wartime notions of femininity and masculinity with a view to fashioning nonviolent gender identities.