Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements

by C. Cockburn

Overview

A lively, first hand account of the ideas and activities of women and men in anti-war, anti-militarist and peace movements. The author looks at the tensions and divergences in and between organizations, and their potential for cohering into a powerful worldwide counter-hegemonic movement for violence reduction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230359741
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/11/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

CYNTHIA COCKBURN Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, City University London, and Honorary Professor at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender atUniversity of Warwick, UK. She is a feminist researcher and writer. She lives in London, where she is active in Women in Black against War and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Table of Contents

Introduction Finding a Voice: Women at Three Moments of British Peace Activism War Resistance and Pacifist Revolution Legitimate Disobedience: An Anti-militarist Movement in Spain Midlands City: Faiths and Philosophies together for Palestine Saying No to NATO: Divergent Strategies Seeing the Whole Picture: Anti-militarism in Okinawa and Japan A State of Peace: Movements to Reunify and Demilitarize Korea Guns and Bodies: Armed Conflict and Domestic Violence Towards a Different Common Sense References

Editorial Reviews

'A new book by Cynthia Cockburn is always cause for cheer. Antimilitarism is full of gritty cross-national comparisons. You can hear women peace activists debating whether to stay in mixed-gender movements, and when do masculinized internal movement cultures replicate the patriarchal structures that perpetuate militarism. Students of social movements, masculinities, feminisms and militarism will each be smarter for having read Cynthia Cockburn.'

- Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

'Cynthia Cockburn's research has done a service to the various peace and anti-war groupsh. Ultimately, it challenges readers to look for "a different common sense". This is the critical, "counter-hegemonic" sense that works for a reduction of every form of violence - from the structural violence of poverty and deprivation and from daily physical violence and intimidation to the organised mass violence of war - and insists that there are other choices we can bring into being.'

- Howard Clark, War Resisters' International

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