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The One Who Burns Herself for Peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Cheyney Ryan
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Abstract

Alice Hertz was a woman who, in J965, burned herself in protest against the Vietnam War. 1 first became aware of her through studying the writings of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and a central figure in the history of nonviolence. In this essay I reflect on how Alice Hertz's action and Dorothy Day's vision of nonviolent commitment can each illuminate the other.

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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminism and Peace , Spring 1994, pp. 21 - 39
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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