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Mary Heaton Vorse: The Life of an American Insurgent: Mary Heaton Vorse: The Life of an American Insurgent

Mary Heaton Vorse: The Life of an American Insurgent
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  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Part One: 1874–1910
    1. One. Amherst
    2. Two. La Bohémienne
    3. Three. Completed Circle
  11. Part Two: 1910–1915
    1. Four. Crossroads
    2. Five. Banner of Revolt
    3. Six. Women’s Peace, Men’s War
  12. Part Three: 1916–1919
    1. Seven. Down the Road Again
    2. Eight. Footnote to Folly
    3. Nine. The Left Fork
  13. Part Four: 1919–1928
    1. Ten. Union Activist
    2. Eleven. Smashup
    3. Twelve. The Long Eclipse
  14. Part Five: 1929–1941
    1. Thirteen. War in the South
    2. Fourteen. Holding the Line
    3. Fifteen. Washington Whirl
    4. Sixteen. Labor’s New Millions
  15. Part Six: 1942–1966
    1. Seventeen. The Last Lap
    2. Eighteen. Serene Plateau
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. Series List

Part Three: 1916–1919

Since the war, even the men at home had turned to me the faces of strangers. They thought negligible what women thought important. The things we asked of one another as we talked about the war held no interest for them. The sense of men’s strangeness has bred a fear in me. . . . [Women’s] deepest experience is giving life and [men’s] intensest moment is when they are called on by war to go out and destroy the lives for which we have risked our own.

—MHV, 1917

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