| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Joyce Blackwell. No Peace Without Freedom: Race and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915–1975. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2004. Pp. xix, 241. $55.00.

Joyce Blackwell has written a much-needed history of African American women's involvement in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). The problems with such a study are major. Since there were so few African American women in the predominately white organization, the book has a tendency to degenerate into a recitation of biographical details, and the account of membership recruitment strategies and numbers is too lengthy. Second and more important, although feminist analysis could have been used to understand how both black and white members viewed the organization, gender is seldom mentioned, whereas "the race card" is always played—by both Blackwell and the historical figures she discusses. Thus, although WILPF was made up almost entirely of women, except for their names there is little recognition of gender difference in attitude or ideology.

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