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Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I
Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens Women and Subversion During World War I Author:Kathleen Kennedy This study focuses on the arrests, trials, and defenses of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the United States entered World War I. Often members of the political left whose anti-war or pro-labor activity brought them to the attention of federal officials, these women made up ten percent of the approximately two th... more »ousand Federal Espionage cases. Their trials became important arenas in which women's relationships and obligations to the emerging national security state were contested and defined.« less