'Cockburn has managed that most difficult of tasks: to produce a book on an important social issue which is theoretically interesteing, factually informative and well written' New Society
As Cyprus prepares to join the European Union in 2004, the pressure is on to resolve the long-standing partition between the internationally accepted Greek Cypriot Republic of Cyprus and the still unrecognized Turkish Cypriot Republic of North Cyprus. Cypriot women on both sides of the Green Line have been involved in a remarkable bi-communal ...
Even in places of deadly national conflict, some very ordinary people are routinely doing peace. In this study, Cynthia Cockburn takes us into three war situations to reveal how certain women have quietly chosen to cross the space between their differences with words instead of bullets. In Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and Bosnia/Hercegovina ...
Why do so many women organize against militarism and war? And why do they often 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 ...
This innovative book demonstrates the making of gender and technology as comparable social processes, one helping shape the other. The authors take as an example the microwave oven, a recent innovation in domestic technology that neatly encapsulates the technology/gender relation. In the microwave, masculine engineering encounters an age old woman ...
A postwar moment is one of promise - but too often of missed opportunities. Will peace bring a democratic, inclusive and equal society? This depends on many factors, but the contributors to this book argue that one of them - crucial but often overlooked - is the importance accorded to transforming gender power relations. Through a focus on two ...
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