A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I

Focusing on the lives and deeds of Frances Witherspoon and Tracy Mygatt, and the activities of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice, the author traces the connection between feminist antiwar activism and the emergence of the modern civil liberties movement in World War I America.

Frances Early is professor of history at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is also co-editor of Athena’s Daughters Television’s New Women Warriors with Kathleen Kennedy