In the fall of 1966, the Voice of Women, a Canadian-based, women's peace organization began participating in a humanitarian aid project to provide clothing for the victims of the Vietnam War. The intention of the project, began by another Canadian organization, the Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians, was to provide hand-made clothing and blankets to those most defenseless to the atrocities of the war: namely, Vietnamese children. What resulted was an assistance program to which the Voice of Women would dedicate more than ten years of its efforts and which would create a resurgence in an organization that had recently been shaken by several damaging events.
What appeared to be simply women providing assistance to children in need was in fact an example of the result of maternal feminism at work. Not only did members of the Voice of Women utilize their roles and instincts as women and mothers to gain support from others for the knitting project; they also use these same roles and instincts as a means to make a strong political statement regarding the Vietnam War. This study will examine the mean by which the Voice of Women gained a great deal of support from both Canadian and American women. Likewise, it will analyze the role that maternal feminism played in the organization of a project that would prove to be a highly political and controversial endeavor.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/27489 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Sweet, Marilyn Selma |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 170 p. |
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