My name is Jody Williams [[electronic resource] ] : a Vermont girl's winding path to the Nobel Peace Prize / / Jody Williams ; foreword by Eve Ensler

• Autore: Williams Jody <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.1/743; B
• Soggetto topico: Pacifists - United States; Women Nobel Prize winners - United States; Nobel Prize winners - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: advocate; anthropology; autobiography; biographies; biography; career; catholic roots; engaging; female authors; geopolitics; government; human rights; icbl; international campaign to ban landmines; international campaign; intersectional feminism; memoir; nobel peace prize; page turner; political action; political; revolutionaries; social activists; social issues; social movements; socials issues; sociology; strong women; uplifting stories; vermont; vietnam war; women writers; women; world politics
• Altri autori: V <1953->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 voice that is at once candid, straightforward, and intimate, Williams describes her Catholic roots, her first step on a long road to standing up to bullies with the defense of her deaf brother Stephen, her transformation from good girl to college hippie at the University of Vermont, and her protest of the war in Vietnam. She relates how, in 1981, she began her lifelong dedication to global activism as she battled to stop the U.S.-backed war in El Salvador.Throughout the memoir, Williams underlines her belief that an "average woman"-through perseverance, courage and imagination-can make something extraordinary happen. She tells how, when asked if she'd start a campaign to ban and clear anti-personnel mines, she took up the challenge, and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) was born. Her engrossing account of the genesis and evolution of the campaign, culminating in 1997 with the Nobel Peace Prize, vividly demonstrates how one woman's commitment to freedom, self-determination, and human rights can have a profound impact on people all over the globe.
• Titolo autorizzato: My name is Jody Williams
• ISBN: 0-520-95533-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786265203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: California Series in Public Anthropology