| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages). |
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text file |
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California series in public anthropology ; 25
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California series in public anthropology ; 25.
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| Contents |
Prologue: October 10, 1997 -- If you could be anyone -- What do you mean I can't be the pope? -- A special place in hell -- Claude, Casey, and the Corvair convertible -- V-I-E-T-N-A-M, marriage, and Mexico -- The making of a grassroots activist -- The pamphlet -- Boots on the ground : Sandinista interlude -- Dinner with the death squad -- I thought I wanted a straight job-instead I got landmines -- Landmines and love -- The Ottawa Process and the 1997 landmine ban world tour -- Whirlwind : October 10 to December 10, 1997 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations follow page. |
| Summary |
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, "Jody Williams is many things-a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist."From her modest beginnings to becoming the tenth woman-and third American woman-to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Jody Williams takes the reader through the ups and downs of her tumultuous and remarkable life. In a voic |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Williams, Jody, 1950-
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Williams, Jody, 1950- |
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Williams, Jody, 1950- |
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Pacifists -- United States -- Biography.
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Pacifists. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Women Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography.
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Women Nobel Prize winners. |
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Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography.
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Nobel Prize winners. |
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780520270251 0520270258 (DLC) 2012031155 |
| ISBN |
0520955331 (electronic book) |
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9780520955332 (electronic book) |
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9780520270251 (alkaline paper) |
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0520270258 (alkaline paper) |
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1299132316 |
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9781299132313 |
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