Women'S Antiwar Diplomacy During The Vietnam War Era (Gender And American Culture)

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

• | Author: Jessica M. Frazier
• | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 20, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 236 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1469631784
• | ISBN-13: 9781469631783