Book contents
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- From “Internationalisme noir” (1928)
- The Irish Republic (1937)
- From “To Joe and Ben” (1937)
- From White Man’s Duty (1942)
- From “The Colonial Question and the Destiny of the French People” (1943)
- From “Le grand camouflage” (1945)
- From African Journey (1946)
- From “The Caribbean Community in Britain” (1964)
- Jane Nardal
- Dorothy Macardle
- Una Marson
- Nancy Cunard
- Simone Weil
- Suzanne Roussy Césaire
- Eslanda Robeson
- Claudia Jones
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Dorothy Macardle
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- From “Internationalisme noir” (1928)
- The Irish Republic (1937)
- From “To Joe and Ben” (1937)
- From White Man’s Duty (1942)
- From “The Colonial Question and the Destiny of the French People” (1943)
- From “Le grand camouflage” (1945)
- From African Journey (1946)
- From “The Caribbean Community in Britain” (1964)
- Jane Nardal
- Dorothy Macardle
- Una Marson
- Nancy Cunard
- Simone Weil
- Suzanne Roussy Césaire
- Eslanda Robeson
- Claudia Jones
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
By January, 1916, when conscription was made law for Great Britain, the Government’s dilemma in Ireland was complete. To force men into active service with an army which they regarded as that of their hereditary enemy was at all times a course full of danger; it was doubly precarious when the men were trained, armed, and resolute to resist. On the other hand, these men, if permitted to remain in Ireland, would give trouble. They were openly preparing for an Insurrection, of which only the date remained in doubt, and James Connolly was asking in The Irish Worker, “Are we not waiting too long?”
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 204 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022