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They list the name of every woman who died in the line of service during WWI. An inscription thereon reads, “This screen records the names of women of the Empire who gave their lives in the war 1914–1918 to whose memory the Five Sisters window was restored by women”. [48] There are 1,513 names listed on the screens. [49]
Linda Malnati (1855–1921) – influential women's rights activist, trade unionist, suffragist, pacifist and writer; Virginia Tango Piatti (1869–1958) – writer and pacifist, WILPF delegate; Graziella Sonnino (born 1884) – feminist and peace activist; Ida Vassalini (1891–1953) – chair of the Milanese WILPF chapter from 1922 to 1927 [13]
The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I (U of North Carolina Press, 2017). xvi, 340 pp. Greenwald, Maurine W. Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (1990) ISBN 0313213550; Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War. Urbana: University of Illinois ...
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Pages in category "British women in World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 219 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hazel Hunkins Hallinan (1890–1982) – American women's rights activist, journalist, and suffragist who moved to Britain and was active in the movement there; Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952) – actress, writer, journalist, feminist; Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon (1857–1939) – author, philanthropist, and an advocate of woman's interests
Fanny Garrison Villard, daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, chair of the August 1914 Woman's Peace Parade Committee, and initiator of the Woman's Peace Party. Although the establishment of a permanent organization did not follow for more than four months, the roots of the Woman's Peace Party lay in a protest march of 1,500 women in New York City on August 29, 1914. [1]
Women's participation in WWI fostered the support and development of the suffrage movement, including in the United States. [7] During the Second World War, women's contributions to industrial labor in factories located on the home front kept society and the military running while the world was in chaos. [2]