Overview
- Focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt’s multifaceted agenda for the world
- Emphasizes her challenge to gendered norms and racial relations
- Presents Eleanor Roosevelt as a public intellectual, a politician, a public diplomat, and an activist
Part of the book series: The World of the Roosevelts (WOOROO)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
- Maurine H. Beasley, Professor Emerita, University of Maryland College Park, USA
"My grandmother was an ardent "small-d" democrat, as well as a Democrat - but she didn't think we were very mature in our living of it! This well-written and illuminating collection of essays, focused on what ER thought it meant to be a global citizen, offers a unique perspective of her views on a host of issues. Let us hope these fresh insights can inspire young people today to construct that better world to which she dedicated much of her life."
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
This book focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt’s multifaceted agenda for the world. It highlights her advocacy of human rights, multilateral diplomacy, and transnationalism, and it emphasizes her challenge to gendered norms and racial relations. The essays of this collection describe Eleanor Roosevelt as a public intellectual, a politician, a public diplomat, and an activist. She was, undeniably, one of the protagonists of the twentieth century and a proactive interpreter of the many changes it brought about. She went through two world wars, the harshness of the Great Depression, and the emergence of nuclear confrontation, and she deciphered such crises as the product of misleading nationalism and egoism. Against them, she offered her commitment to people’s education as an example of civic engagement, which she considered necessary for the functioning of any democratic order. Such was the world Eleanor Roosevelt envisioned and tried to build –symbolically and practically – one where people, the citizens of the world, may really be at the center of international affairs.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anya Luscombe is associate professor of media at University College Roosevelt, where she teaches Rhetoric and Journalism, and affiliated researcher at the University of Utrecht’s Department of Media and Culture Studies. Her research interests include radio history, cultural history and Eleanor Roosevelt. She is the author of BBC Radio News, from the swinging sixties to the turbulent noughties (2013) and has published articles, book chapters and reviews on media, (transnational) broadcasting and women’s history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eleanor Roosevelt's Views on Diplomacy and Democracy
Book Subtitle: The Global Citizen
Editors: Dario Fazzi, Anya Luscombe
Series Title: The World of the Roosevelts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42315-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42314-8Published: 30 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42317-9Published: 30 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42315-5Published: 29 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2578-7225
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 219
Topics: US History, Political History, Diplomacy