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 The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts
   Women and the War



Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War 1

by Kathleen Kennedy  

ISBN
0253335655

Purchase Price
£31.99 (new)

Date Purchased
October 20, 2020

Publisher
Indiana University Press (1999, Bloomington and Indianopolis)

Notes
This book focuses on the arrests, trials and defences of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed in the United States shortly after the country entered the war. These women, often members of the political left, whose anti-war or pro-labour activity brought them to the attention of Federal officials, made up 10% of the roughly 2,000 Federal espionage cases. Their trials became important arenas in which women's relationships and obligations in the emergency national security state were contested and defined.