Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Yang, Jiling Author's Email Address dorothytheseeker@yahoo.com URN etd-11282005-004146 Title IN SEARCH OF MARTHA ROOT: AN AMERICAN BAHA'I FEMINIST AND PEACE ADVOCATE IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY Degree Master of Arts Department Women's Studies Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Ian Fletcher Committee Chair Christopher White Committee Member Layli Phillips Committee Member Keywords
- Global feminism
- Internationalism
- World peace
Date of Defense 2005-08-16 Availability unrestricted Abstract Martha Root (1872-1939) was an exceptional religious and spiritual activist, a leading figure in the international women's peace movement, and a new organism of a new world in the early twentieth century. This thesis represents Martha Root from three aspects: the early life of Martha Root, her four world teaching trips from 1919 to 1939, with a focus on her peace advocacy, and an investigation into her gender awareness and identity construction by reflecting on Tahirih the Pure, Iran's Greatest Woman, Martha Root's only book.Files
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