Peace and Bread in Time of War

by Jane Addams

Overview

First published in 1922 during the "Red Scare," by which time Jane Addams's pacifist efforts had adversely affected her popularity as an author and social reformer, Peace and Bread in Time of War is Addams's eighth book and the third to deal with her thoughts on pacifism.
 
Addams's unyielding pacifism during the Great War drew criticism from politicians and patriots who deemed her the "most dangerous woman in America." Even those who had embraced her ideals of social reform condemned her outspoken opposition to U.S. entry into World War I or were ambivalent about her peace platforms. Turning away from the details of the war itself, Addams relies on memory and introspection in this autobiographical portrayal of efforts to secure peace during the Great War. "I found myself so increasingly reluctant to interpret the motives of other people that at length I confined all analysis of motives to my own," she writes. Using the narrative technique she described in The Long Road of Women's Memory, an extended musing on the roles of memory and myth in women's lives, Addams also recalls attacks by the press and defends her political ideals.
 
Katherine Joslin's introduction provides additional historical context to Addams's involvement with the Woman's Peace Party, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and her work on Herbert Hoover's campaign to provide relief and food to women and children in war-torn enemy countries.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252070938
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	07/24/2002
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a social activist, Progressive reformer, and author of many books of social criticism. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Katherine Joslin is a professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the coeditor of Wretched Exotic: Essays on Edith Wharton in Europe.
 

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
	Preface	1
1.	At the Beginning of the Great War	3
2.	The Neutral Conference plus the Ford Ship	17
3.	President Wilson's Policies and the Woman's Peace Party	30
4.	A Review of Bread Rations and Woman's Traditions	43
5.	A Speculation on Bread Labor and War Slogans	53
6.	After War Was Declared	62
7.	Personal Reactions during War	76
8.	In Europe during the Armistice	87
9.	The Aftermath of War	102
10.	A Food Challenge to the League of Nations	114
11.	In Europe after Two Years of Peace	127
	Afterword	141
	Appendix	145
	Index	149