Anti-Militarism: A Feminist Agenda

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Professor Cynthia Cockburn, Department of Sociology, City University, London

Groups and organizations opposing war and militarization, and seeking peace, are multiplying to become a worldwide movement. They contain many diverse political tendencies, socialist, communist, anarchist, pacifist, religious - and feminist. Women point to links between the condition of war and so-called peace, seeing patriarchal gender relations and the dominance of masculine values as a sustained source of violence. The mixed movements of men and women struggle over the adoption of this perspective and its implications for activism.

Biography:
Cynthia Cockburn is a feminist researcher and writer, active in the London branches of Women in Black against War and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She is Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology, City University London, and Honorary Professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick.

Organiser: Bloomsbury Gender Network hosted by the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies

Contact email: rs94@soas.ac.uk