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- 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
- 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
- From “The Colored Woman and Her Relation to the Domestic Problem” (1902)
- From “The Relation of Teachers to the Peace Movement” (1908)
- From “The Teaching of History and World Peace” (1921)
- From “The Creation of the International Mind” (c. 1931/1932)
- From The Disarmament Illusion (1942)
- From Problems of Mass Education (1947)
- From Common Sense and World Affairs (1955)
- From “The Birth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” (c. 1960s)
- Nannie Helen Burroughs
- Fannie Fern Andrews
- Eileen Power
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Merze Tate
- Margaret Read
- Dorothy Fosdick
- Amy Ashwood Garvey
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Dorothy Fosdick
from 10 - Public Opinion and Education
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
- 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
- From “The Colored Woman and Her Relation to the Domestic Problem” (1902)
- From “The Relation of Teachers to the Peace Movement” (1908)
- From “The Teaching of History and World Peace” (1921)
- From “The Creation of the International Mind” (c. 1931/1932)
- From The Disarmament Illusion (1942)
- From Problems of Mass Education (1947)
- From Common Sense and World Affairs (1955)
- From “The Birth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” (c. 1960s)
- Nannie Helen Burroughs
- Fannie Fern Andrews
- Eileen Power
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Merze Tate
- Margaret Read
- Dorothy Fosdick
- Amy Ashwood Garvey
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
Wanting to contribute to a sensible foreign policy, many of us are at a loss what to do about it. With big decisions made in Washington, D. C., what can a mere individual in Oshkosh achieve? Public opinion, we are continually told, plays a vital role in foreign policy. No people, it is said, gets any better foreign policy than it deserves. But what can any one person usefully accomplish?
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 564 - 568Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022