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Journal entries that relate to Elise’s early activism and scholarship are also scarce, and I have supplemented entries in this chapter with excerpts from family letters. Chapter 4 in Mary Lee Morrison’s biography of Elise (Years as a “Happy Homemaker”: the 1950s and 8 Early 1960s) covers in some detail Elise’s involvement in Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan, and Women’s Strike for Peace: “Elise’s activism reached its peak in the mid-1960s when she was led back to academia and to a life as a scholar, integrating activism while continuing her extensive networking (Morrison 2005: 65)”.
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Mary Lee Morrison, 2005: Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace (Jefferson, NC: McFarland).
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Pendle Hill is a Quaker study center. Elise and Kenneth often taught and participated in programs there.
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The book Elise refers to does not seem to have ever been written. In 1959 she translated from Swedish “A Study of the Religious Experience in Children from 9 to 13” by Gote Kingberg (Religious Education LIV(3):211–216, May–June), and in 1963 she published “Children in Solitude” (Pendle Hill Pamphlet 124, Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications).
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As far as I know, Elise never mentioned in her published writings the spiritual experience referred to here.
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The one-volume abridged version of Polak’s Image of the Future was published in 1973. It was not until the late 1970s that Elise published her two major books about women, The Underside of History (1976) and Women in the Twentieth Century World (1976).
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This is the last entry in the journal. There is a gap of ten years before journals resume.
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Boulding, J.R. (2017). Early Activism and Scholarship, 1954–1967. In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: Autobiographical Writings and Selections from Unpublished Journals and Letters. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46538-8_5
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