| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Cold War Women: The International Activities of American Women's Organisations. By Helen Laville. (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 2002. xii, 220 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-7190-5856-2.)

During the Cold War, the U.S. role in world politics affected American culture and politics. U.S. movements for social change were not simply a receptacle for international influences, however. Instead, American activists drew upon global political developments to frame their domestic social change arguments, and they also operated in a global space, organizing transnationally and using transnational connections as leverage in their advocacy work at home. Helen Laville's new book, Cold War Women, contributes to this transnational scholarship by examining the international organizing strategies of American women's organizations during the Cold War. This history, Laville suggests, shows that women were active participants in international relations during the post-World War II years; they were not simply the objects of Cold War constructions of gender and domesticity.

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