November 17, 2006
Race, Gender, and Radical Pacifism
Marian Mollin, associate professor of history, Virginia Tech
In the late 1940s, some men involved in radical pacifism dubbed themselves "commandos of the spirit." In her book, Radical Pacifism in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press), Ms. Mollin offers a history of the influence of militant pacifists — and of how battles over gender and race at times "distorted and undermined" radical pacifists' central aims.
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