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The Awakening of Woman The Psychic Side of Feminism
1915Best.-Nr. 12868New York NY: The Abingdon Press 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Scarce first edition. Blue cloth gilt titling on board and spine. Small image from dust jacket tipped in at inside front board. Original contemporary card laid in advertising the book with a review by S. Parkes Cadman "A reliable book for preachers preparing addresses on the Woman Question" Florence Guertin Tuttle 1869-1951 was born in Brooklyn NY; and as a young woman attended the Avitas Club one of the first women only clubs where she was exposed to speakers such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman prominent American humanist and a lecturer for social reform. Was involved in the women's suffrage movement the birth control rights movement with Margaret Sanger and a member of the World Peace Party with Jane Addams in the early 1900's. During WWI she became a strong advocate of internationalism; became Chair of the Women's Pro-League Council 1920; attended meetings of the Council of the League of Nations in Geneva where she befriended such people as First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson and Carrie Chapman Catt; and became Executive Chairman of the Greater New York Branch of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association in 1924. Wrote several books articles and leaflets on world peace the economic causes of war world cooperation and women's rights. She was in great demand as a speaker on peace and internationalism. The Abingdon Press hardcover
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