Dissenters from the Religion of Patriotism”

This article examines the pacifist, nonresistant, and socialist women who published poetry in the California Socialist Party's newspaper, the Oakland World . These women—Mary Laughlin, Edna Helm, Caroline Wadsworth Turner, Fanny Bixby, Dora V.B. Chapple Hagemeyer, Ruby Herman, Ruth Le Prade, Anna Louise Strong—are unfortunately absent from the otherwise excellent histories of women's resistance to World War I. This examination of the work of eight women poet‐activists who published in the World from April 1917 to April 1918 remedies this omission by revealing their significant influence on wartime discourse

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