Cynthia Cockburn
Cockburn, Cynthia, The Women’s Movement: Boundary Crossing on Terrains of Conflict
In Robin Cohen, Shirin M. Rai, Global Social Movements (A. 6. Nonviolent Action and Social Movements)Focuses on action-research project Women Building Bridges in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and Bosnia Hercegovina, and comments on role of transnational women’s networks, including Women in Black.
Cockburn, Cynthia, Anti-Militarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements
Feminist peace activist provides her theoretical perspective on cross-national case studies including UK peace movement, War Resisters’ International, anti-militarist campaigns in Spain, Korea and Japan, and the anti-NATO demonstrations in Strasbourg 2009.
Cockburn, Cynthia, From Where We Stand: War, Women’s Activism and Feminist Analysis
Examines women’s resistance to war in many parts of the world, including Sierra Leone, Colombia and Gujarat, India. It also covers women’s cooperation across enemy lines in the former Yugoslavia and in Israel/Palestine, and resistance in the west to imperialist war, and develops theoretical questions about gender and militarism. See also: Cynthia Cockburn, Women in Black: The Stony Path to “Solidarity”, In Howard Clark, People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) London, Pluto Press, 2009 , pp. 156-163