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Issue 2443 | June - August 2001
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Reviews

Cynthia Enloe, 'Maneuvers. The International Politics of Militarising Women's Lives'
Guiomar Rovira, 'Women of Maize: indigenous women and the Zapatista rebellion'
Jeremy Black, 'The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen'
Cynthia Cockburn, 'The Space Between Us. Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict'
Susie Jacobs, Ruth Jacobsen and Jennifer Marchbank (eds), 'States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance'
Claire Denis (dir), 'Beau Travail'
Mai Ghoussoub & Emma Sinclair Webb (eds), 'Imagined Masculinities: Male Identities and Culture in the Modern Middle East'
Dr Rosalie Bertell, 'Planet Earth The Latest Weapon of War: A Critical Study into the Military and the Environment'
Dennis Hardy, 'Utopian England: Community Experiments 1900-1945'

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Gender and militarism

Mayday Worldwide

News | June - August 2001

A brief round-up of May Day events from around the world.

London: After all the fuss beforehand, May Day in London was a fairly peaceable affair. ...

Israeli COs go to jail

by Ippy D | News | June - August 2001

In Israel, three conscientious objectors to military service were imprisoned during April and early May. ...

"Peace at home, support for war abroad"

by Colin Bryce and Jim Keys | News | June - August 2001

In Northern Ireland, Derry's political parties must find the backbone to publicly state their position on the development of an arms industry in the city, according to Patricia McKenna, Ire ...

Women win prizes!

by Zertashia Hussain | News | June - August 2001

On 8 March the United Nations Development Fund for Women and International Alert awarded Women in Black, Belgrade, among others, their millennium peace prize. ...

Justice?

by Zertashia Hussain | News | June - August 2001

The second military trial against Russian environmental journalist Grigory Pasko started in Vladivostock in March, after the Military Collegium of the Russian Supreme Court decided to over ...

Abolitionists face prison, courts protect the bomb

by John LaForge | Comment | June - August 2001

Last June two nuclear weapons abolitionists sawed down three of the 4,000 poles that hold antenna lines for the US Navy's Project ELF (extremely low frequency) submarine transmitter (PN 24 ...

South Africa: a land of hope and contrast

by Franco Perna | Comment | June - August 2001

An article in the Quaker weekly, The Friend, led me to travel to South Africa with the prime motivation to volunteer and become acquainted with post-Apartheid peace-related initiatives in ...

The gender dynamic

by Cynthia Cockburn | Feature | June - August 2001

War and militarism are highly gendered phenomena—they are difficult if not impossible to understand without reference to gender. ...

Remaining at the edge

by Anu Pillay | Feature | June - August 2001

At a recent seminar on peace building in Africa, the question of why gender and not women was raised. What is the difference? ...

Masculinities, violence, and peacemaking

Feature | June - August 2001

Though women have often manufactured weapons and serviced armies—and in an age of nuclear weapons are equally targeted— it is historically rare for women to be in combat. ...

A weekend in 'dam: Women's Antiwar Strategy Workshop

Feature | June - August 2001

Militarism and war have in some ways changed their nature in the last two decades. Or is it our perception of them that's changed? ...

Sex and the peacekeeping soldier: the new UN resolution

by Angela Mackay | Feature | June - August 2001

The 31 October 2000 was more than just a Halloween celebration for thousands of women watching the UN Security Council on that day. ...

Zapatismo: a feminine movement

by Nicole Blanc and Gustavo Esteva | Feature | June - August 2001

In this article we present the conjecture that Zapatismo is a feminine movement. ...

Cypriot women challenge the island's partition

by Cynthia Cockburn | Feature | June - August 2001

Cyprus isn't in the headlines much these days but, 26 years on from the nationalist-inspired fighting that resulted in its partition, it remains a sharply divided country. ...

Mixing it

by Angie Zelter and David MacKenzie | Feature | June - August 2001

David ...

Masculinity and conscientious objection

by Sergeiy Sandler | Feature | June - August 2001

When Peace News asked me to write this essay, I found myself in a strange position. ...

A CO in the family

by Ruth Hiller | Feature | June - August 2001

Just three years ago my son Yinnon approached me and told me that he could not serve in the military on moral grounds. He said he knew with growing certainty that pacifism was his ideal. ...

Changing the soldier or changing the military? The case of the Dutch armed forces

by Karen Joachim and Dubravka Zarkov | Feature | June - August 2001

During the last ten years, the Dutch Armed Forces have seen dramatic change, of two kinds. First, instead of an army of conscripts, it has become a professional army. ...

Fizzy fizzy lets get busy!

by Conner Jay | News | June - August 2001

Early morning on 4 March an alliance of anti-capitalist activists and human rights campaigners, held a successful blockade of Coca-Cola's distribution centre and full service vending depot ...