From where we stand : war, women's activism and feminist analysis / Cynthia Cockburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cockburn, Cynthia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women political activists.

Women--Social conditions--21st century.

Women.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why do so many women organize against militarism and war? And why, very often, do they choose to do so in women-only groups? This original study, the product of 80,000 miles of travel by the author over a two-year period, examines women?s activism against wars as far apart as Sierra Leone, Colombia and India. It shows women on different sides of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Israel refusing enmity, and co-operating for peace. It describes trans-national networks of women opposing US and Western European militarism and the so-called?war on terror?

Contents:

Different wars, women's responses

Against imperialist wars : three transnational networks

Disloyal to nation and state : antimilitarist women in Serbia

A refusal of othering : Palestinian and Israeli women

Achievements and contradictions : WILPF and the UN

Methodology of women's protest

Towards coherence : pacifism, nationalism, racism

Choosing to be 'women' : what war says to feminism

Gender, violence and war : what feminism says to war studies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-275) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786611215972

9781350220287

1350220280

9781848136786

1848136781

9781848131361

1848131364

9781281215970

128121597X

OCLC:

654400613