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Author Williams, Jody, 1950-

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

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 260 p. : ill.
Series California series in public anthropology ; 25
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Williams, Jody, 1950-
Pacifists -- United States -- Biography.
Women Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780520270251 (alk. paper)
9780520955332 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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