Antimilitarism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Cynthia Cockburn

   Pages 1-18

3. Finding a Voice: Women at Three Moments of British Peace Activism

   • Cynthia Cockburn

   Pages 19-45

4. War Resisters and Pacifist Revolution

   • Cynthia Cockburn

   Pages 46-73

5. Legitimate Disobedience: An Anti-militarist Movement in Spain

   • Cynthia Cockburn

   Pages 74-102

6. Midlands City: Faiths and Philosophies Together for Palestine

   • Cynthia Cockburn

   Pages 103-125

7. Saying No to NATO: Divergent Strategies

   • Cynthia Cockburn

   Pages 126-151

8. Seeing the Whole Picture: Anti-militarism in Okinawa and Japan

   • Cynthia Cockburn, Naoko Ikeda

   Pages 152-179

9. A State of Peace: Movements to Reunify and Demilitarize Korea

   • Cynthia Cockburn

   Pages 180-210

10. Guns and Bodies: Armed Conflict and Domestic Violence

    • Cynthia Cockburn

    Pages 211-236

11. Towards a Different Common Sense

    • Cynthia Cockburn

    Pages 237-263

12. Back Matter

    Pages 264-297

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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.

• Armed conflict
• conflict
• gender
• NATO
• Peace
• revolution
• violence

'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

• Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, City University London, UK

  Cynthia Cockburn

• Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, UK

  Cynthia Cockburn

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.

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