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 Si...