Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion during World War I

A concise and highly readable study of women's influence on a crucial era in American political and cultural history.

Kathleen Kennedy's unique study explores the arrests, trials, and defenses of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the US entered World War I. These women, often members of the political left, whose anti-war or pro-labor activity brought them to the attention of federal officials, made up ten percent of the approximately two thousand Federal E...