This study
focuses on the arrests, trials, and
defenses of women
charged under the
Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the United States
entered World War I. Often
members of the political left whose anti-war or pro-labor activity brought them to the attention of federal officials, these women made up ten percent of the approximately two thousand Federal Espionage cases. Their trials became important arenas in which women's relationships and obligations to the emerging national security state were contested and defined..
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