Building a just and secure world : Popular Front women's struggle for peace and justice in Chicago during the 1960s

"Building a Just and Secure World highlights women's activism, often peripheral and one-dimensional in peace movement historiography which tends to dramatize men's antiwar and antinuclear activism in national organizations. In Chicago, an urban center of anti-war and civil rights activism, a generation of middle-aged women leaders came to their involvement in the movement through previous experience in mixed-sex Leftist movements and local civil rights campaigns. Participant historians of Sixties New Left, peace, and feminist movements of the Sixties have argued that the Old Left was defunct and the younger generation re-energized socialism in the early 1960s. These historians characterized Popular Front leftists as anticommunist cold war liberals who had abandoned youthful revolutionary aspirations for the reformist New Deal welfare state. Contrary to the arguments the Popular Front politics were defunct, Schneidhorst joins historians who argue the Popular Front generation continued to promote progressive and radical goals into the 1960s."--Bloomsbury Publishing The emergence of Women for Peace and the revitalization of citizen activism, 1960-1962 One thing leads to another: from the Test Ban Treaty to multi-issue peace politics, 1963-1964 Activism against the Vietnam War and the dangers of Cold War anticommunism, 1963-1965 The YWCA and older women's activism: women mobilized for change and racial justice in Chicago, 1965-1967 Modeling a new social vision: a response to law and order, 1967-1968 All politics are local: adult activist resistance to Vietnamization 1969-1975. "This work discusses the activism in the 60s of progressive women who came of age during the Popular Front era of the 30s and 40s"-- Provided by publisher