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oapen-20.500.12657-879782024-03-28T14:03:23Z Sisters in Peace Laing, Kate women peace internationalism Australia anti-war WILPF thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement Is preparing for war the best means of preserving peace? In Sisters in Peace, Kate Laing contends that this question has never been solely the concern of politicians and strategists. She maps successive generations of twentieth-century women who were eager to engage in political debate even though legislative and cultural barriers worked to exclude their voices. In 1915, during the First World War, the Women's International Congress at The Hague was convened after alarmed and bereaved women from both sides of the conflict insisted that their opinions on war and the pathway to peace be heard. From this gathering emerged the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which to this day campaigns against militarism and nuclear weapons. In Australia, the formation of a section of WILPF connected political women to a worldwide network that sustained their anti-war activism throughout the last century. In examining the rise of WILPF in Australia, Sisters in Peace provides a gendered history of this country’s engagement with the politics of internationalism. This is a history of WILPF women who committed to peace activism even as Australia’s national identity and military allegiances shifted over time—a history that has until now been an overlooked part of the Australian peace movement. 2024-02-23T15:29:45Z 2024-02-23T15:29:45Z 2023 book ONIX_20240223_9781760466008_8 9781760466008 9781760465995 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87978 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International book.pdf ANU Press ANU Press 10.22459/SP.2023 10.22459/SP.2023 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760466008 9781760465995 ANU Press 360 Canberra open access
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Is preparing for war the best means of preserving peace? In
Sisters in Peace, Kate Laing contends that this question has never been solely
the concern of politicians and strategists. She maps successive generations of
twentieth-century women who were eager to engage in political debate even though
legislative and cultural barriers worked to exclude their voices. In 1915,
during the First World War, the Women's International Congress at The Hague
was convened after alarmed and bereaved women from both sides of the conflict
insisted that their opinions on war and the pathway to peace be heard. From this
gathering emerged the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF), which to this day campaigns against militarism and nuclear weapons. In
Australia, the formation of a section of WILPF connected political women to a
worldwide network that sustained their anti-war activism throughout the last
century. In examining the rise of WILPF in Australia, Sisters in Peace provides
a gendered history of this country’s engagement with the politics of
internationalism. This is a history of WILPF women who committed to peace
activism even as Australia’s national identity and military allegiances shifted
over time—a history that has until now been an overlooked part of the Australian
peace movement.
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