Women's antiwar diplomacy during the Vietnam War era / Jessica M. Frazier.
"During the Vietnam War, ... a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands and meet with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.S. intervention in Vietnam. ... [These] U.S. activists solicited Vietnamese women's opinions and advice on how to end the war an...
| Uniform Title: | Gender & American culture.
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 217 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
"During the Vietnam War, ... a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands and meet with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.S. intervention in Vietnam. ... [These] U.S. activists solicited Vietnamese women's opinions and advice on how to end the war and looked toward them as models for their own lives, viewing them as paragons of a new womanhood and a means by which to discuss their own subordination within their communities and U.S. society more broadly" Provided by publisher. |
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| Call Number: | DS559.8.W6 F73 2017 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469631783 1469631784 9781469631790 1469631792 |