Women's Voices From Around the World

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is a library and archives collecting material on non-governmental efforts for peace, social justice, and internationalism, around the world. Resources in the Peace Collection on women's activism date back to the early nineteenth century and continue to the present day, in a wide variety of formats, and from many countries. Well over fifty percent of all the holdings in the Peace Collection concern women's activism around the world. This exhibit is an introduction to only some of those resources. For the full listing of all Peace Collection resources, see the home page.

The page, "Women's Voices From Around the World," includes information about Peace Collection resources on women and women's organizations fron over 60 countries. The links provided link to detailed descriptions for larger manuscript collections, links to some digitized files, including photographs, posters, and memorabilia. This material has been divided by country of origin of an individual woman or women's organization, with an additional section on international organizations and activists. This page only includes Peace Collection resources which are the words or voices of women about themselves. The Peace Collection also has additional and siginificant resources about women, written by others-men, and women from other countries-but that material has not been included here. As Peace Collection resources on women in the U.S. are voluminous, US women have not been included in the lists here. Only collections of papers or organizational records created by American women and which include material of writings, etc. by women from other countries are listed here. Please contact Peace Collection Curator, Wendy Chmielewski at: <wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu> for further information on other resources or accessing this material.

Argentina Confederacion Femenina Argentine [organizational material, 1930s] Confederacion Femenina de la Paz Americana [correspondence, 1933-1939, 1940s] Consejo de Madres Permanente pro Union y paz Universal [1 item, 1948] Consejo National de Mujeres de la Republica Argentina [miscellaneous material, 1918, 1938-1941] Federacion Argentina de Mujeres por la Paz [2 items, 1938] Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence between Graves and Argentian women, such as Berta Lutz] Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence with Argentinian women activists, 1930s-1940s] John Nevin Sayre [correspondence with Isabel Reinke, 1941-1963] Union Argemtina de Mujeres [correspondence, 1930s] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence Argentian women and women's organizations, 1934-1935, 1956-1957]

Australia Eleanor M. Moore [items from 1914-1981] Women's Inter-Church Council of Victoria, 1947 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; -- General correspondence 1920s, 1934, 1960s --- Peacewards, 1916-1919 --- Peace and Freedom (Perth) 1957-1996; ---W.I.L.P.F. bulletin / Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, N.S.W. Branch, 1978 Women's Peace Army [5 items, 1915-1917] Women's Peace Crusade [4 items, 1914, 1948]

Austria Jean Goss and Hildegard Goss-Mayr Papers, [writings and correspondence on peace issues, 1964-1965] --John Nevin Sayre [correpondence with Hildegard Goss-Mayr about peace work in the 1950s and 1960s] Bertha von Suttner Papers [writings and correspondence on peace issues, 1904-1913; photographs] --Das unglaubliche Leben der Bertha von Suttner [television documentary, 2005] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [general correspondence with Austrian WILPF branch, and individual women, 1925-1933, 1960s; posters]

Bertha von Suttner

Belgium "La Femme Belge" {pamphlet, 1922] Voix Feminines Records

Bolivia Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence with Bolvian women and women's organizations, 1930s-1950] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence with Bolvian women and women's organizations, 1930s-1950]

Bosnia Fellowship of Reconciliation [Bosnian Student Project] [essays, correspondence, video and audio recordings from young Bosnian women refugees, 1990s]

Brazil Peoples Mandate Committee Records -- correspondence with Brazilian women and organizations, 1920s-1950s -- membership list for the Woman's Club of Rio de Janeiro] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; -- correspondence with Brazilian women and organizations, 1930s-1950s --Mujer [1 issue of the magazine, 1936] --"O Trabahlo Feminino" [pamphlet by Bertha Lutz, 1937]

Bulgaria
Committee of the Movement of Bulgarian Women
Jenny B. Payewa
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [Correspondence from the Bulgarian Section of WILPF, 1930s]

Canada
Voice of Women/Voix des Femmes Records [various organizational materials, 1960-1969]
--Women Strike for Peace [correspondence and other materials Voice of Women Canada, 1960s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
--general correspondence with Canadian section of WILPF, 1920s-1960s; program files, 1980s
--Congress of Canadian Women [organizational material, 1982]
--Voice of Women: The First Thirty Years [video recording, 1992]
Women's Conference for International Cooperation Records, [5 items, 1962]
Women's League of Nations Association Records, [1931-1933]

Chile
Hortensia Bussi De Allende,  "Chile: The Struggle To Restore Democracy" [radio interview, 1975]
Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence with Chilean women, such as Gabriela Mistral and others]
Peoples Mandate Committee Records
--correspondence with Chilean women and women's organizations, 1930s-1950s
--Movimento pro Emancipacion de las Mujeres de Chile [correpsonendence, reports, newspaper clippings, 1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
--correspondence with Chilean women and women's organizations, 1930s-1970s
--material on Chilean political prisoners, 1970s
--Movimento pro Emancipacion de las Mujeres de Chile [correpsonendence, reports, newspaper clippings, 1940s]

China Anna Melissa Graves Papers --correspondence with Chinese women, 1920s-1950s --correspondence on feminism in China, 1920s Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence with Chinese women, 1920s-1950s] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence with Chinese women, 1920s-1950s]

Colombia
"Para Que Tu Voz No Caiga en el Vacio LIMPAI - Colombia Y La Liga de Mujeres Desplaza," [videorecording, 2000]
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [corrsespondence with Colombian women and organizations, 1930s-1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom;
-- corrsespondence with Colombian women and organizations, 1930s-1950
--Union Femenina de Colombia [correspondence and organizational material, 1940s]

Costa Rica Anna Melissa Graves Papers [corrsespondence with Costa Rican women, 1930s-1940s] Peoples Mandate Committee Records --corrsespondence with Costa Rican women and organizations, 1930s-1950 --Primer Congresso Centroamericano Femenino de Educaction, [program, 1928] --Revista del Colegio Superior de Senoritas [magazine, 1937] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [corrsespondence with Costa Rican women and organizations, 1930s-1949]

Angela Acuna de Chacon

Cuba Peoples Mandate Committee Records --correspondence with Cuban women and organizations, 1930s-1950 --Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas [correpsondence 1930s-1970] --"Woman as a Factor of Peace" [radio broadcast from Havana, no date] Women Strike for Peace Records [correspondence 1970s] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; --correspondence with Cuban women and organizations, 1930s-1950s --Intercambio Femenino Internacional [correspondence and organizational material, 1930s]

Czechoslovakia Ellen Starr Brinton Papers [correspondence from Kulka sisters, members of the Czech WILPF, trying to leave the country immediately before World War II] Milarda Marsalka Papers [collection of papers from Czech-born WILPF activist 1960s-1990s] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Czech WILPF section 1922-1960s]

Denmark Anna Melissa Graves Papers Kvinder for Fred [Women for Peace], 1980 Women for Peace Women's International League for Peace and Freedom --[general correspondence from Danish Section of WILPF, 1926-1960s] -- Fred og Frihed [Danish newsletter, 1926 ] --Meddelelsesblad for Danske Kvinders Fredskæde [Danish newsletter 1926]

Dominican Republic
Peoples Mandate Committee Records
-- correspondence from Domincan women, 1940s
--Accion Feminista Domincana [correspondence and organizational files, 1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence from Domincan women, 1930s-1950]

Ecuador
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from Ecuadoran women about conflict between Ecuador and Peru, 1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
-- correspondence from Ecuadoran women, 1930s-1950
--correspondence from Ecuadoran women about conflict between Ecuador and Peru, 1940s

Egypt
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence from Egyptian women, 1934]

El Salvador Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from El Salvadoran women, 1930-1950] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from El Salvadoran women, 1930-1950]

Finland
Women for Peace in Finland [organizational material, correspondence with Finnish women]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [organizational material, correspondence with Finnish women]

France Alliance Universelle des Femmes Pour la Paix [4 items, 1900-1910] Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence from French women, 1930s-1940s] André Trocmé and Magda Trocmé Papers --writings and correspondence from Magda Trocmé, peace activist, 1930s-1970s -- John Nevin Sayre [correspondence with Magda Trocmé, 1940s-1960s] --Interviews of Magda Trocmé [audio recordings, 1970s] Conseil National des Femmes Françaises, Section de la Paix [National Council of French Women, Peace Section, 1913] Camille Drevet --writings of feminist peace activist, 1928-1936 --Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Camille Drevet, 1931-1933] Andrée Jouve -- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence 1948-1952] Ligue des Femmes Contre la Guerre [organizational material, 1921-1922] Ligue Internationale des Meres et des Educatrices pour la Paix [organizational material, 1933-1939] Union Féminine pour la Société des Nations, Groupe Marseillais [organizational material] Union of French Women --organizational material, 1951 -- Women Strike for Peace Records [organizational material, 1960s] Wisbech Local Peace Association Records ["Manifesto of French Women Against War," by V. Greiss-Trant, no date (before 1900)] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from French women, 1935-1960s]

Gabrielle Duchene

Germany
Anita Augspurg
-- material from Augspurg pacifist and feminist, 1937-1944
--Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Augspurg about WILPF issues, 1915-1940s]
-- Die Frau im Staat [magazine published by Augspurg, 1919-1933]
-- "Some Glimpses of the Maison Internatinale," [contains film footage of Anita Augspurg, 1940s in Switzerland]
Gertrude Baer
--correspondence and other materials
--Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Baer, international WILPF secretary, 1930s-1960s]
Deutscher Frauenausschuss zur Bekämpfung der Schuldlüge, [organizational materials, 1924-1929]
Anna B. Eckstein [writings of world peace activist, 1880s-1940s]
Frauen-Werkrut [magazine, 1929]
Martha Freund-Hoppe [Freund-Hoppe collected propaganda materials about German militarism in the first decades of the 20th century and through World War I]
--online exhibit of some Freund-Hoppe materials
Anna Melissa Graves Papers
Alice Herz and Helga Herz [mother and daughter activists, refugees from Germany, 1940s-2002]
Margret Hofmann
Internationales Frauenfriedensarchiv Fasia Jensen
Petra Kelly
-- writings of Green Peace and Green party activist, 1970s-1980s
--Radio interview, 1983
Käthe Kollwitz, [documents and art work from artist and anti-war activist, 1918-1964]
Martha Kühl [Trinker]
Margarethe Lachmund, , [1952-1975]
Gertrude Lukner [7 items, 1948]
"Military Bases: In Whose Interest?" [Audio cassette, interviews with German women, 1989]
Dr. Elisabeth Rotten, [5 items, 1920-1963]
John Nevin Sayre [correspondence with various German women peace activists, 1940s-1970s]
Helene Stöcker Papers [correspondence and writings of Stöcker, feminist, peace activist, novelist, 1920s-1940s]
"Weaving Project," [audio cassette, interviews of German women from anti-nuclear peace camps, 1983]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
--general correspondence from German women activists, 1923-1936, 1950s-1960s
--correspondence with Lida Gustava Heymann, feminist and peace activist, 1939-1940
-- Informationsblatt / Deutsche Sektion. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [magazine issues, 1975-1977]
--Pax et libertas : Vierteljahresblatt der Internationalen Frauenliga fűr Frieden und Freiheit [magazine issues, 1986]

Ghana
Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence from Ghanese women, 1930s-1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Ghanese women, 1930s-1940s]

Great Britain Dorothy Alton, [1965] A Ruth Fry Papers [Quaker peace activist, and relief worker] -- includings writings and correspondence, 1914-1940s --John Nevin Sayre [correspondence from Fry 1940s-1950s] Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp [organizational material by anti-nuclear activists, 1980s] British Women's Temperance Association, Peace Section Vera Brittain -- writings 1938-1946 --John Nevin Sayre [correspondence from Brittain on peace issues, 1940s-1960s] Federation of Women Civil Servants [correspondence, 1915-1940] Global Women's Strike Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles [organizational matierals, writings about lawsuit brought by British women in U.S. federal court, 1980s] --Greenham Challenge: Bringing Missiles to Trial [video recording about lawsuit, 1987] [Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp [anti-nuclear peace camp, 1980s-1990s] Emily Hobhouse, [4 items, 1913-1916] Gwyn Kirk, [feminist anti-nuclear activists, writings, 1980s-2000s] Muriel Lester [peace activist, writings and correspondence, 1920s-1960s] --John Nevin Sayre [correspondence from Lester, 1930s-1960s] Liaison Committee for Women's Peace Groups [1964] Kathleen Lonsdale Mairead Corrigan Maguire [Nobel Peace Prize winner, writings, 1980s-] National Council of Women of Great Britain, [newsletter, 1986] National Industrial and Professional Women's Suffrage Society , Peacemakers' Pilgrimage [by women], [Report, 1926] Bertram and Irene Pickard, Caroline E. Playne, [1908-1937] Edith Pye [activist with British WILPF] Dr. A. Maude Royden, [1928-1942] --John Nevin Sayre [correspondence from Lester, 1930s-1960s] Sellafield Women's Peace Encampment, Leeds [organizational material, 1980s] Helena Maria Swanwick, [writings and corrspondence, 1915-1930s] "Weaving Project," [audio cassette, interviews of British women from anti-nuclear peace camps, 1983] Wisbech Local Peace Association Records [writings of Priscilla Peckover and other British women activisits, 1880-1931] Betty Williams [Nobel Peace Prize winner] Theodora Wilson Wilson [writings of novelist and peace activists during World War I] Woman Suffrage Peace Material [7 items, 1914-1916] Women Against the Bomb Women for Life on Earth, Wales [organizational matieral, 1980s] Women for World Disarmament Women's Centre, Derry [organizational matieral, 1970s] Women's Cooperative Guildm [8 items, 1928-1936] Women's International Crusade Against War, [ca. 1914] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence, 1921-1980s] -- Monthly News Sheet 1916-1919 Women's International Peace Crusade, [3 items, ca. 1935-1937] Women's Nuclear Test Ban Network [[organizational matieral, 1993] Women's Peace Alliance, [7 items, 1985-1986] Women's Peace and Progress Society [1 item] Women's Peace Crusade, [1926-1940] Women's Stop War Movement, Glasgow [organizational matieral, 1920s] Women's Union for Peace [organizational matieral, 1920s] Women's World Committee Against War and Fascism, [2 items, 1934-1935] Women's World Congress for Peace and Liberty, [4 items, 1939] WoMenwith Women's Peace Camp, [organizational material on anti-nuclear group, 1994] Nina Worley, 1961

Priscilla Peckover of the Wisbech Local Peace Association

Greece Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Greek members of WILPF]

Guatemala
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from Guatemalan women's organization, 1930s-1940s]
Rigoberta Menchu Tum [Nobel Peace Prize winner}
--In Pursuit of Peace [video recording, includes interview with Menchu Tum]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
--correspondence from Guatemalan women's organization, 1930s-1950]
--Congreso Interamericano de Mujeres [correspondence, 1947]
--Women for Guatemala [organizational material, 1982]

Haiti
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from Haitian feminists and women's organizations, 1930s-1950s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence from Haitian feminists and women's organizations, 1930s-1950s]

Honduras
"Military Bases: In Whose Interest?"  [audio recording with Marta Sandoval, 1989]
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from Honduran feminists and women's organizations, 1930s-1950s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Honduran feminists and women's organizations, 1930s-1950s]

Hungry International Council of Women International Women's Week in Budapest, [correspondence and organizational material, 1936-1937] Rosika Schwimmer --correspondence and writings of Hungarian feminist and peace activists, 1914-1948] --Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Schwimmer, 1915-1930s] --Henry Ford Peace Expedition [correspondence and writings from Schwimmer, 1915] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; General correspondence, 1925-1929, 1960s Women's Peace Movement [organizational material, 1895-1915]

Rosika Schwimmer

India All India Women's Conference --reports, organizational material, 1928-1955 --Hannah Clothier Hull Papers [correspondence from women, 1928] Peoples Mandate Committee Records -- correspondence on status of women and feminism, 1930s --Bulletin of Indian Women's Movement [magazine, 1930s] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence, 1926-1933, 1950s-1960s]

Sushila Mehta

Indonesia
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence from Indonesian WILPF members, 1956-1957]

Iraq
Iraqi Women's League, Damascus, (Syria) [organizational material, 1981]
Women Say No to War: Iraqi & American Women Speak Out [video recording, 2007]

Ireland
Irish Women for Disarmament [organizational material]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Irish women, 1921]
Women's Peace Movement [organizational material, 1976-1980]

Israel
Flying Focus Video Bus-Middle East WILPF Women [video recording of interviews of Lebanonese, Israeli and Palestinian women, 2006]
Haifa Feminist Center [organizational material]
Dorothy Hutchinson Papers [correspondence from Israeli WILPF members, and newspaper clippings, 1960s]
Movement of Democratic Women in Israel [organizational material, 1980]
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from Israeli women, 1940s-1960s]
Miriam Sharon
Women in Black, Israel [audio cassette, Hannah Kenaz of Women in Black in Israel, 1992]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Israeli women, 1940s-1960s]
Women's Organization for Political Prisoners, Tel Aviv [organizational material, 1988]

Japan Committee of Japanese Women Working for Ending the War in Vietnam, Tokyo [organizational material 1960s] Help, If I May Ask [video recording, Hiroshima Day commemoration, includes stories told by survivors Ms. Masako Hashida, and others, 2005] Japanese Women's Committee to Appeal to American Mothers on Withdrawal of U.S. Troops and Nuclear Weapons from South Korea [organizational material, 1977] Tano Jodai -- correspondence from peace activist -- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Jodai, 1960s-1970s] Kurihara, Sadako [young, inspirational survivor of atomic bombing, 1950s] "Military Bases: In Whose Interest?" [Audio cassette, interviews with Japanese women, 1989] Mother's Association of Eiken Kindergarten, [1982] Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence,[ ca. 1997-1998] Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from women's organizations, 1920s-1960s] Nagako Sugimori [writings of Japanese WILPF member and academic on women and peace issues, 1990s] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -- correspondence with Japanese WILPF members, and other women's organizations, 1925-1938, 1950s-1960s --Federation of Japanese Women's Organizations [organizational material and correspondence, 1970s-1980s] Western Japan Women's United Association, [ca. 1922]

Korea
"Military Bases: In Whose Interest?"  [audio recording with Bok-Him Yu, 1989]
Korean Democratic Women's Union [organizational material]
Women Outside, The: Korean Women and the U.S. Military [video recording, includes interviews with women who work in the bars and nightclugs outside US military bases, 1996]

Laos Association des Femmes Patriotes Lao -- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [photographs of women soldiers, workers, farmers, refugees, 1960s] Women Strike for Peace [photographs of women soldiers, workers, farmers, refugees, 1960s] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [report of Laotian women to Canadian Voice of Women conference, 1971] Dispatch News International [on line photographs of Laotian women, 1960s-1970s]

Meo women refugees, 1970s

Lebanon
Arab Women's Information Committee The Friends of Jerusalem, Beirut (Lebanon) [organizational material, 1982]
Flying Focus Video Bus-Middle East WILPF Women [video recording of interviews of Lebanonese, Israeli and Palestinian women, 2006]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: [correspondence from Lebanese members of WILPF, 1960s]

Liberia
Emily Greene Balch Papers [correspondence on conditions in Liberia, 1930s-1940s]
Dorothy Detzer Papers [correspondence on conditions in Liberia, 1930s-1940s]
Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence from women in Liberia, 1930s-1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence, resolutions, reports from Liberian women, 1930s]

Mauitius
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [WILPF branch newsletter, 1980-1981]

Mexico
Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence with feminists and women's organizations, 1920s-1960s]
"La Mujer y la Paz," by Guadelupe Gutierres de Joseph, 1930
Peoples Mandate Committee Records
--correspondence on conditions in Liberia, 1930s-1940s
--Universidad Femenina de Mexico [organizational material, 1940s]
Women Strike for Peace [Union Nacional de Mujeres Mexicanas, 1970]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence from Mexican women, 1922-1939, 1950s-1960s]

Netherlands Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence with Dutch women, 1930s-1950s] Algemeene Nederlandsche Vrouwen Vredebond [organizational material, 1917-1939] "De Vrouw en de Vredesbeweging" [pamphlet, 1924] Nationale Vrouwenraad, [organizational material, 1948] Nederlandsch Comité van Vrouwen vor Duurzamen Vrede [organizational material] Joint Action of Netherlands Women --Peoples Mandate Committee [organizational material, 1930s] Union Mondiale de la Femme pour la Concorde Internationale [organizational material, 1955] Vrouwen voor Vrede (Women for Peace), [organizational material, 1980s] Vrouwen Vredesgang (Women's Peace Procession) [organizational material, 1935-1939] Vrouwen Wereld Unie voor Internationale Eensgezindheid, [organizational material, 1950s] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence 1923-1936, 1950s-1960s (see also: Holland in the WILPF finding aid)]

Aletta Jacobs

New Zealand
LIMIT [organizational material]
Susanna Ounei [audio cassette, interview, 1986]
New Zealand Women's Crusade for World Peace
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence, 1930s-1940s]
Women's Crusade for World Peace [3 items]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence, 1923-1924, 1925, 1929, 1960s]

Nicaragua
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from Nicaraguan women, 1920s-1940s]
Witness for Peace [writings from Nicaraguan women during covert wars of the 1980s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence, 1927-1933-1950; 1980s]

Norway
Gro Harlem Brundtland [former prime minister of Norway]
--"Gro Harlem Brundtland at the U.N." [audio cassettes of interviews and speeches, 1988-1989]
Nordiska Kvinnors Fredsinitiativ, 1984 [women's peace camps]
Sheridan, Diana Brown [intervews with Norwegian peace activists, 1980s]
Women for Peace, 1981
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
-- correspondence from Norwegian women, 1933, 1960s
--Norwegian section of WILPF newsletter Fred og Frihet 1939-date

Palestine / Gaza Strip
Flying Focus Video Bus-Middle East WILPF Women [video recording of interviews of Lebanonese, Israeli and Palestinian women, 2006]
Palestinina Arab Women League [organizational material, 1960s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence, 1956-1957, 1960s]

Panama
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence with women's organizations, 1930s-1950s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence with women's organizations, 1920s-1950s]

Paraguay
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence with women's organizations, 1930s-1950s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence with women's organizations, 1930s-1950]

Peru
Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence with Peruvian women about feminism, 1938]
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence with women's organizations, 1930s-1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence with women's organizations, 1930s-1950]

Philippines
Concerned Women of the Philippines, 1988
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines, correspondence and organizatinal material, 1930s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence with women, 1921-1951]

Poland
"Military Bases: In Whose Interest?"  [audio recording with Elzbieta Piwowarska 1989]
Wiszniewska, [Her Highness Princess]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Polish women, late 1960s]

Puerto Rico
Hannah Clothier Hull Papers [correspondence with Puerto Rican Women on independence for Puerto Rico, 1930s-1940s]
"Military Bases: In Whose Interest?" [audio recording, includes interview with Maria Isabel Fidalgo, 1989]
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence with Puerto Rican Women on independence for Puerto Rico, 1930s-1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [general correspondence, 1934-1970s; correspondence with Puerto Rican Women on independence for Puerto Rico, 1930s-1940s]

Russia
Catharine Breshkovsky [some published writings of activist]
Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence with Russian women]
Mothers Against Violence, 1991

South Africa
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence with white South African women, 1930s-1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence with South African women, 1980s]

Spain
Liga Universal Femina Contra la Guerre, 1931
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence Spanish women, 1937-1939, 1946]

Sweden
Gunnar and Alva Myrdal [material from Nobel Prize winner]
Sveriges Kvinnliga Fredsförening [Swedish Women's Peace Society], Stockholm [organizational material, 1902-1910]
Helene Stoecker [correspondence from Swedish women, 1930s]
Women for Peace, [organizational material, 1990s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Swedish WILPF members, 1934-1935, 1956-1957, 1960s]

Switzerland
Alliance Internationale pour le Suffrage et l'Action Civique et Politique des Femmes, [1929]
Camp pour la Paix
Helene Claparde-Spir, [5 items, 1920s]
Comité du Désarmament Créé par les Organizations Feminines Internationales
Marguerite Debrit,
Alice Descoeudres, [1928-1948]
Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women's International Organisations [1931-1940]
Anna Melissa Graves Papers
Groupe du Locle de l'Association Nationale Suisse popur la Suffrage Feminin, [1917]
Union Mondiale de la Femme la Concorde Internationale, Geneva, [1915-1960]
Women for Peace
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from Swiss women, 1939, 1960s]
Women's Organisation for World Order [organizational material]

Syria
Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence from Syrian woen on family life and conditions in Syria, 1930s-1940s, correspondence about women's congress, 1930]
Iraqi Women's League, Damascus, (Syria) [ 1981]

Turkey Nadire Mater Epaish Youssoff

Epaish Youssoff

Ukraine
Emily Greene Balch Papers [Ukrainian Women's Congress report, 1934]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
--National League of Ukrainan Women [history of organization, 1930s]
--Photographs of Ukrainian delegates to WILPF Congress in Vienna, 1921

Uraguay
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from women and women's organizations, 1930-1940s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; [correspondence from women and women's organizations, 1930-1950]

USSR
Anna Melissa Graves Papers [correspondence on Soviet life
Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from Soviet women, 1920s-1930s, 1950s-1980s]
Leningrad Women's Peace Conference, September 4-9, 1984
Soviet American women’s summit [audio recording, congressional reception and news conference, 1990]
Soviet Women's Committee
--Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence and reports, 1960s]
--Women Strike for Peace Records [correspondence and reports, 1960s]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence and organizational material especially on the visit of Soviet women to US, and return visit of US women to the USSR, 1960s; correspondence 1950s-1980s]

Venezuela Peoples Mandate Committee Records [correspondence from feminist and women's organizations, 1930s-1950s] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from feminist and women's organizations, 1930s-1950s]

Yvonne Gonzalez Ricones

Vietnam
Madame Nguyen thi Binh [Foreign Minister]
--Interview with Madame Binh [audio recording, 1970]
--Interview with Madame Binh from Women Strike for Peace [audio recording, no date]
--"Conference on Ending the War in Indochina: PRG Presentation, intrview with Madame Binh [audio recording, 1971]
South Vietnam Women's Union for Liberation
--Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence, 1960s]
-- Women Strike for Peace Records [correspondence, 1960s]
Madame Ngo Ba Thanh [Third War activist, feminist, lawyer]
-- correspondence, 1960s-1970s
--speech by. Ngo Ba Thank [audio recording, no date]
Vietnam Women's Union
-- correspondence and organizational material, 1960s-1970s
-- Women of Viet Nam [magazine, 1965-1978]
-- Women Strike for Peace Records [correspondence from the VWU, 1960s]
--Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [correspondence from the VWU, 1960s]
Vietnamese Women's Movement for the Right to Live
--Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [organizational materials from the VWMFRL1970s]
Voice of Women, Canada [reports from Vietnamese women meeting in Canada about IndoChina war, 1960s]
Cora Weiss Papers [correspondence and writings from Vietnamese women, 1960s-1970s]
Woman speaking Vietnamese describing her experience as a political prisoner [audio recording, no title, no date]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
-- correspondence, 1960s-1970s

International Jane Addams Papers [Nobel Peace Prize winner, correspondence from women all over the world, 1890-1935] All-Asian Women's Conference, Lahore, January 19-25, 1931 (India) Art for World Friendship Records [art work created and exchanged between girls (and boys), all over the world, 1940s-1960s] Associated Country Women of the World [report, 1946] Emily Greene Balch Papers [Nobel Peace Prize winner, correspondence from women all over the world, 1920s-1950s] Federation of Women of the Americas, 1948-1951 Hague Appeal for Peace confernces [all audio cassette, 1999] --Building Women’s Leadership for Peace  --Engendering the Peace Process  --If Women Ruled the World --Women Against War and Armed Conflict --Women and Conversion  --Women Lead the Way to Peace   Inter American Commission of Women, Geneva, 1932 International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship,[organizational material, 1927] International Assembly of Women [organizational material, 1920] International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace [reports, organizational material, originating organization for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1919] International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace [organizational material] International Congress of Women [correspondence and organizational material, photographs, 1915, 1919] International Cooperative Women's Guild (Germany) [organizational material] International Co-Operative Women's Guild [organizational material, 1930 (Great Britain)] International Council of Women [organizational material] International Council of Women [organizational material, 1924-1925 (Great Britain)] International Mother's Protest Against War [organizational material, 1935] International Peace League of Mothers and Educators [organizational material] International Union of Liberal Christian Women [organizational material] International Women's Congress for Freedom and Peace [5 posters, 1921] International Women's Tribune Centre [newletter and organizational material, 1970-1990s] Internationaler Frauenbund (International Council of Women [organizational material, 1930 (Austria)] Internationaler Vrouwenbond voor Vrede en Vrijheid [organizational material, 1934-1936] League of Nations Council: Women's Consultative Committee on Nationality [organizational material, ca. 1930s] Pacific Women Exploring Nonviolence [video recording, 2004] Pan American Conference of Women [organizational material,1922, photographs, 1928] Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association [organizational material, ca. 1930s] Pan Pacific Women's Association [organizational material, 1920s-1950s] --Hannah Hull Papers [organizational material] --Peoples Mandate Committee Records [organizational material] -- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [organizational material] Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women's International Organisations, Geneva, 1931-1940 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women / NGO Forum, Beijing, China -- organizatinal material, posters, buttons, 1995 --"Women Speak Up: A Video Collection of Women’s Voices From Around the World" [video recording, 1995] --"Peace Train to Beijing: The Fourth UN Conference on Women," [video recording, 1996] --"To Empower Women: the Beijing Platform for Action," [video recording, 1996] War and Peace: Women's Perspectives and Experiences [computer diskette, documents, 2000] Alice Wiser Papers [writings and reports from the United Nations Conference in Niarobi, Kenya, 1984] Women and Global Corporations Conference [conference material, 1978 (WILPF)] Women in World Affairs [correspondence, 1940s (WILPF)] Women of the Americas [program, 1970 (WILPF)] Women of the World Working for Peace [correspondence, conference material, 1982 (WILPF)] Women, SALT, and Arms Control [correspondence, conference material, 1982 (WILPF)] Water, Women, Peace [videorecording, 2004] Women's Conference for International Cooperation Year [conference material, 1962] Women's Indian Association Women's International Committee for Law Enforcement [report, 1914] Women's International Democratic Federation [organizational material, 1960s-1970s] --Women of the Whole World [magazine, 1951-1989] Women's Consultative Committee on Nationality [organizational material, 1920s] Women's World Congress for Peace and Liberty [organizational material, 1939 (WILPF)] World Association of Mothers for Peace World Center of Women's Organizations [organizational material 1930s (Peoples Mandatate Committee)] World Congress of Women [organizational material, 1950s-1960s] World Gathering of Women for Disarmament [correspondence and organizational material, 1962 (WILPF and Women Strike for Peace)] World Woman's Party [correspondence and organizational material, 1950s (WILPF and Peoples Mandate Committee)] World Women's Congress [correspondence and organizational material, 1963 (WILPF World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet

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Image Credits:

All images come from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection: Top images under banner: (left to right) Women's International League for Peace and Freedom members, circa 1921; Priscilla Peckover, British Quaker peace activist, circa 1880: Delegation of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom members visiting North Vietnam during the war, circa 1970; Epaish Youssoff, Turkish member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1920s.