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- Title
Western Feminism and Anti-Imperialism: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Anti-Opium Campaign.
- Authors
Siegel, Mona L.
- Abstract
In 1926, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) officially condemned imperialism as antithetical to lasting peace. A year later, following on this resolution, the League sent a delegation of WILPF members to make contact with like-minded women in Indochina, China, and Japan. Upon the conclusion of the 'mission to Asia,' the League launched a two-year-long effort to battle the illegal opium trade in Asia. This article argues that WILPF members undertook the anti-opium campaign in response to two differing objectives: to showcase Western women's competence in matters of international policy and to demonstrate the incompatibility of imperialism with peace and freedom. Even the most anti-imperialist of WILPF members, however, had trouble articulating a specifically feminist rationale for opposing both the illegal opium trade and Western imperialism more broadly.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S International League for Peace &; Freedom; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on feminism; WOMEN'S history; IMPERIALISM; OPIUM trade; PACIFISM
- Publication
Peace & Change, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
0149-0508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0130.2010.00670.x