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The Genoa Conference was one of the key events of European diplomacy between the two world wars. In 1922, thirty four nations met for six weeks to restore peace between victors and vanquished, reestablish ties between Soviet Russia and the West, and promote the economic reconstruction of Europe.This is the first scholarly book-length study of this largest, most ambitious, and controversial of the many interwar conferences, with a new preface for the paperback edition.

Focusing on the lives and deeds of Frances Witherspoon and Tracy Mygatt, and the activities of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice, the author traces the connection between feminist antiwar activism and the emergence of the modern civil liberties movement in World War I America.