Helen Laville

Biographic Data

ID3681256
NAMEHelen Laville
GIVEN NAMESHelen
FAMILY NAMELaville
SIGNATURELAVILLE H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Birmingham
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Cold War women

    Helen LavilleBOOKCold War Women2024

    This book explores the importance of American women's associations in offering American women an active role outside the home, a function that had been recognised and applauded by feminist historians of the pre-suffrage era. It investigates the continuing relevance of the 'separate sphere' of women-only organisations after the extension of suffrage. American women's organisations in the twentieth century continued to offer women an opportunity an…

  • Organized White Women and the Challenge of Racial Integration, 1945-1965

    Open AccessHelen LavilleBOOKOrganized White Women and the…2017

    This monograph asserts that the troubled history of segregation within American women’s associations created a legacy of racial exclusivity and privilege. While acknowledging the progressive potential

  • Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi

    Helen LavilleARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Tiyi M. Morris's account of the work of Womanpower Unlimited (wu), a small Mississippi-based women's organization with a predominately African American membership, begins with an explanation of the invisibility of such groups in historical memory. For many black women, Morris asserts, taking care of their communities was simply “what Black women did; without fanfare or expecting praise” (p. 13). Morris's account of wu uncovers this vital communal…

  • Intelligent Compassion

    Helen LavilleARTICLEWomen s History Review2015

  • Gender and Women's Rights in the Cold War

    Helen LavilleCHAPTEROxford Handbook of the Cold War2013

    This chapter, which examines the issues of gender and women's rights during the Cold War, discusses how the United States and the Soviet Union used the status of women as a measure of national progress. It explains that the United States promoted women's domesticity and consumerism while the Soviet Union maintained that the measure of woman's status was her equality to men, which should be measured in terms of equal pay and the number of women in…

  • Woolly, Half-Baked and Impractical'? British Responses to the Commission on the Status of Women and the Convention on the Political Rights of Women 1946-67

    Helen LavilleARTICLETwentieth Century British History2011

    This article traces the relationship between women's associations and the British government with regard to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), from its establishment in 1946 to British ratification of the Convention on the Political Rights of Women (CPRW) in 1967. Whilst international women's associations were instrumental in articulating the legitimacy of women's rights as an international concern in the inter-war period…

  • The US Public and American Foreign Policy

    A Priest, Andrew Johnstone et al.EDITORBOOKThe US public and American…2010

    1. Introduction Andrew Johnstone and Helen Laville Section One: The Public and War 2. From Coast Defence to Embalmed Beef: The Influence of the Press and Public Opinion on McKinley's Policymaking during the Spanish-American War Joseph Smith 3.To Mobilize a Nation: Citizens Organizations and Intervention and on the Eve of WWII Andrew Johnstone 4. Power to the People? American Public Opinion and the Vietnam War Andrew Priest Section Two: Public Int…

  • The Challenge of Affluence

    Open AccessHelen LavilleARTICLEHistory2007

  • Protecting difference or promoting equality? US Government approaches to women's rights and the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1945-50

    Helen LavilleARTICLEComparative American Studies An…2007References: 3

    American propagandists and policy-makers throughout the Cold War era embraced the discourse of domesticity and the need to protect women as key markers of difference between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, with the establishment of the United Nations institutions, legislation and discourse on women's equality emerged, which prioritized equality over the protection of difference. This article will explore how the United States sou…

  • "Our Country Endangered by Underwear"

    Helen LavilleARTICLEDiplomatic History2006

    In November 2000, the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg opened a new exhibition, “Lingerie of the Totalitarian Age,” which lifted “the veil on Stalinist bloomers and Brezhnev-era bras,” according to one newspaper.1 Almost four thousand museum goers visited each day “to marvel at the unsexy garments worn by their mothers and grandmothers—or in some cases, by their former selves.” One visitor, Tatyana Vasiliyevna, explained, “It would have b…

  • If the Time is not Ripe, Then it is Your Job to Ripen the Time!' The Transformation of the Ywca in the USA from Segregated Association to Interracial Organization, 1930-1965

    Helen LavilleARTICLEWomen s History Review2006

    This article explores the processes behind the transformation of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in the USA from a segregated organization in 1920 to an organization promoting racial equality, both within its ranks and in the wider community by 1965. Despite the continuation of segregated practices within some parts of the YWCA until the late 1960s, African‐American women were able to influence the YWCA within national divisions, n…

  • The American Way

    Helen Laville, Scott Luca et al.ARTICLEDiplomatic History1996

    Journal Article The American Way: Edith Sampson, the NAACP, and African American Identity in the Cold War Get access Helen Laville, Helen Laville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott Lucas Scott Lucas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 20, Issue 4, October 1996, Pages 565–590, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1996.tb00287.x Published: 01 …