This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. Known as the "matriarch" of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the fields of peace education, future studies, feminism, and sociology of the family, and as a prominent leader in the peace movement and the Society of Friends. She taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1967 to 1978 and at Dartmouth College from 1978 to 1985, and was instrumental in the development of peace studies programs at both institutions. She was a co-founder of the International Peace Research Association (1964), the Consortium on Peace Research Education and Development (1970), and various peace and women's issues-related committees and working groups of the American Sociological Association and International Sociological Association.

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Elise Boulding taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1967 to 1978 and at Dartmouth College from 1978 to 1985, and was instrumental in the development of peace studies programs at both institutions.  She was a co-founder of the International Peace Research Association (1964), the Consortium on Peace Research Education and Development (1970), and various peace and women's issues-related committees and working groups of the American Sociological Association and International Sociological Association.

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Part I Elise Boulding on Feminism and Ethnicity: Women in Community (1977).- Women and Social Violence (1981).- Ethnicity and New Constitutive Orders (1993).- Women's' Movements for Social Change: Social Feminism and Equity Feminism (1994).- Part II Elise Boulding on the Family: The Family as a Small Society (1982).- Familia Faber: The Family as Maker of the Future (1983).- The Challenge of Nonconformity: Reweaving the Web of Family Life for Gays and Lesbians (1987).- Families as Centers of Peace and Love: Facing the Contradictions (1989).- Our Children, our Partners: A New Vision for Social Action in the 21st Century (1996).- Part III Elise Boulding on Quakerism: Quaker Foremothers as Ministers and Householders (1989).