From Where We Stand War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis

Name: From Where We Stand War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis
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ISBN: 9781842778210

ISBN-10: 1842778218

ISBN-13: 9781842778210

Edition: 2007

Authors: Cynthia Cockburn

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This original study by the, 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 international networks of women opposing US and Western European militarism and the so-called 'war on terror'. Women are often motivated by adverse experiences in male-led anti-war movements, preferring to choose different methods of protest and remain in control of their own actions. But like the mainstream movements, women's groups differ - some are pacifist…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 2/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction


Different wars, different responses: Colombia, Sierra Leone and Gujerat


Against imperialist wars: three transnational networks


Refusing enmity: in the space formerly known as Yugoslavia


Refusing enmity: in the space formerly known as Palestine


Achievements and contradictions: WILPF and the United Nations


Methodology of women's protest


Diversity and divergence: contested words


Why women? What war says to feminism


Patriarchy and violence: what feminism says to war studies