Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Going Global: New Trajectories in U.S. Women's History.

2010; Society for History Education; Volume: 43; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

1945-2292

Mary E. Frederickson,

Race, History, and American Society

In 1915, AMERICAN JANE ADDAMS, together with 1,300 women from around the world, founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, an organization dedicated to fostering understanding, preventing war, and laying the foundations for a permanent peace. Addams believed that women in the United States needed to recognize the interdependence of women around the globe in terms of promoting peace, but also regarding economic justice, social activism, and a sense of collective political responsibility. In the twenty-first century, the global perspective adopted by Jane Addams, and those who followed in her footsteps across the years, provides a powerful model for a theoretical paradigm shift in the way women's history in the United States has been written and taught since the 1970s.1