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Intelligent compassion : feminist critical methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom / Catia Cecilia Confortini

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012

Online-Ressource (xiv, 203 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill

Englisch

What is feminist peace?Feminist critical methodology, peace and social change -- Evidence of things unseen: WILPF and disarmament -- What is violence? WILPF and decolonization -- Orientalism and peace: WILPF in the Middle East -- Conclusion: feminist ways to peace.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Intelligent compassion

0-19-997987-1 (electronic bk.); 978-0-19-997987-5 ( : electronic bk.)

0-19-984523-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-19-984523-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

JZ5578

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LOC-SH: Women and peace -- History -- 20th century ; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Women and peace ; History ; 20th century ; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ; Electronic books

This book traces changes in ideas and policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF - the longest-living international women's peace organization) from 1945 to 1975. Focusing on three areas of the organization's work (disarmament, decolonization, and the conflict in Israel/Palestine), the book addresses the agent-structure problem in international relations, specifically asking to what extent activists can transcend the practices of their era given that they are also shaped by them