My name is Jody Williams : a Vermont girl's winding path to the Nobel Peace Prize /

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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 N...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Jody, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 25.
Subjects:
Williams, Jody, > 1950-
Pacifists > United States > Biography.
Women Nobel Prize winners > United States > Biography.
Nobel Prize winners > United States > Biography.
Pacifistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Lauréates du Prix Nobel > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Arms Control.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Nobel Prize winners.
Pacifists.
Women Nobel Prize winners.
United States.
Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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