Cynthia Cockburn

Biographic Data

ID160897
NAMECynthia Cockburn
GIVEN NAMESCynthia
FAMILY NAMECockburn
SIGNATURECOCKBURN C
AFFILIATIONSCity, University of London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS610
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX10

  • The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace

    Cynthia CockburnCHAPTERSites of Violence2019

  • In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations

    Cynthia CockburnBOOKIn the Way of Women2019

    How are men responding to feminism? In particular, at work dealing with the challenge to their power and privilege represented by positive action for sex equality? The 1980s saw many organizations, from major companies to left-wing local councils, take action to improve women's chances. The research on which this book is based evaluates the part of men in the equality process. The author demonstrates the social mechanisms through which women's as…

  • London - City of Refuge and Hazard: Women's Experience of Asylum

    Cynthia CockburnBOOKLondon - City of Refuge and Hazard2017

  • The Dialogue that Died: Israeli Jewish and Israeli Palestinian Women in Hard Times

    Cynthia CockburnARTICLEInternational Feminist Journal of…2014Cited by: 3References: 2

    For fifteen years, in the north of the state of Israel, a women's organization existed in which Israeli Jewish and Israeli Palestinian women activists worked together for peace and justice in a careful and challenging dialogue across difference. “Bat Shalom of the North” was the subject of research by the author in 1996. In this article she reports on her return in 2012 to re-interview former members. Applying the feminist concept of “transversal…

  • War and security, women and gender: An overview of the issues

    Cynthia CockburnARTICLEGender & Development2013Cited by: 24References: 7

    This article addresses the gender division of war and the significance of men and masculinity in processes of militarisation. Three phases of the continuum of war are considered. In periods of war-readiness, societies see a diversion of spending from social provision to the armed forces, accompanied by an increase in patriarchal ideology and authority. The actual waging of wars calls for the delivery of extreme but disciplined violence, and comba…

  • Against the odds: Sustaining feminist momentum in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina

    Cynthia CockburnARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2013Cited by: 12References: 1

  • What Became of 'Frontline Feminism'? A Retro-perspective on Post-conflict Belfast

    Open AccessCynthia CockburnARTICLEFeminist Review2013Cited by: 3References: 13

    A feminist stock-taking on 'post-conflict', this paper revisits a study made by the author in 1996-1997, when the women's community sector was a lively actor in the processes leading to the Good Friday Peace Agreement of 1998. Refusing to observe sectarian conflict lines, women's centres were re-writing official 'community development' policy as community empowerment and political challenge. The author draws on new interviews conducted in 2012 wi…

  • Anti-Militarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements

    Open AccessCynthia CockburnBOOKAntimilitarism2012

    Introduction Finding a Voice: Women at Three Moments of British Peace Activism War Resistance and Pacifist Revolution Legitimate Disobedience: An Anti-militarist Movement in Spain Midlands City: Faiths and Philosophies together for Palestine Saying No to NATO: Divergent Strategies Seeing the Whole Picture: Anti-militarism in Okinawa and Japan A State of Peace: Movements to Reunify and Demilitarize Korea Guns and Bodies: Armed Conflict and Domesti…

  • Militarism, Patriarchy and Peace Movements: Cynthia Cockburn and Cynthia Enloe in Conversation

    Cynthia Cockburn, Cynthia EnloeARTICLEInternational Feminist Journal of…2012Cited by: 8References: 3

    The article presents a conversation between feminist writers Cynthia Cockburn and Cynthia Enloe about the politics of gender, militarism and peace movements. According to Enloe, Cockburn's "Brothers" is one of her all-time favourite feminist books. Cockburn says the feminist turning point for her was in 1995. She also points out that women in England tend to perceive domestic violence as one problem while war violence as a different one. Enloe ci…

  • Who are 'we'?', asks one of us

    Open AccessCynthia CockburnARTICLEJournal of Classical Sociology2012Cited by: 4References: 1

    The article seeks to strengthen the proposition of John Holloway's Crack Capitalism, that we are capable of creatively breaking and transforming the system in which we live, by considering in greater depth the nature of the 'we' that are his actor for change. I suggest that Holloway's representation of 'difference', such as that between women and men, or people of conflictual ethnicities, as a matter of theatrical 'masks' that may be discarded at…

  • Play of power: Women, men and equality initiatives in a trade union

    Cynthia CockburnCHAPTERAnthropology of Organizations2010

  • Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War: A Feminist Standpoint1

    Cynthia CockburnARTICLEInternational Feminist Journal of…2010Cited by: 142References: 9

    Based on empirical research among women's antiwar organizations worldwide, the article derives a feminist oppositional standpoint on militarization and war. From this standpoint, patriarchal gender relations are seen to be intersectional with economic and ethno-national power relations in perpetuating a tendency to armed conflict in human societies. The feminism generated in antiwar activism tends to be holistic, and understands gender in patriar…

  • The Continuum of Violence

    Cynthia CockburnCHAPTERCultures of Fear2009

  • On The Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men, and Technical Know-How

    Cynthia CockburnARTICLEWomen's studies quarterly2009Cited by: 45References: 2

    A quarter century has passed since I wrote Machinery of Dominance. Back then, socialist feminists were struggling to understand the connection be tween capitalism and patriarchy, as social systems. Heidi Hartmann's The Unhappy Marriage of Capitalism and (Hartmann 1981) came out while I was writing this, Zillah Eisenstein's Capitalist Patriarchy (Eisen stein 1979) had appeared two years before. One system or two? How re lated? That conceptual proj…

  • From where we Stand: War, Women’s Activism and Feminist Analysis

    Cynthia CockburnBOOKFrom where we Stand2007

    This original study examines women’s activism against war in areas as far apart as Sierra Leone, India, Colombia and Palestine. It shows women on different sides of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Israel addressing racism and refusing enmity and describes international networks of women opposing US and Western European militarism and the so-called ‘war on terror’. These movements, though diverse, are generating an antimilitarist feminism t…

  • Women in projects of co-operation for peace: Methodologies of external intervention in Cyprus

    Open AccessMaria Hadjipavlou, Cynthia CockburnARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2006Cited by: 4References: 9

  • Le matériel dans le pouvoir masculin

    Cynthia Cockburn, Marie PlouxARTICLECahiers du Genre2004Cited by: 7References: 1

    Le typographe de presse représente un type classique de l’artisan masculin, subordonné au propriétaire capitaliste mais fortement syndicalisé, membre respecté de la classe des ouvriers qualifiés et fier de gagner le « salaire familial ». Sous l’impulsion des employeurs, la profession a récemment connu de spectaculaires changements technologiques menaçant sa capacité de contrôle sur le métier. Cet article analyse cette lutte pour la maîtrise de la…

  • States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance

    Open AccessCynthia CockburnARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2001Cited by: 43

  • Meridians Roundtable on Peace

    Malathi De Alwis, Rita Arditti et al.ARTICLEMeridians2001

    Discussions on peace often assume there is agreement about how the term peace is to be defined, rarely reflect on its meaning in the context of economics, and, when its connotations are gendered, this is done through the lens of women as essentially peaceful beings. In order to have a wider discussion about peace Meridians assembled a Roundtable, during the Women Waging Peace conference, at Harvard University in November 2000. The women who parti…

  • ‘Wide Awake to Women’: Gender and Other Disturbances in a Trade Union

    Open AccessCynthia CockburnCHAPTERGender, Democracy and Inclusion…2000

    The union that generously opened itself to our research was the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA). It has just short of 36 000 members, of whom 61 per cent are women. The membership is mainly white-collar workers, comprising administrative, executive, professional, clerical and technical employees in the civil service (55 per cent) and the public service (45 per cent). 1 The Alliance is the product of a series of amalgamations over…

  • Gender and Catastrophe

    Open AccessCynthia CockburnARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2000Cited by: 1

  • The Anti‐Essentialist Choice: Nationalism and Feminism in the Interaction between Two Women's Projects

    Open AccessCynthia CockburnARTICLENations and Nationalism2000Cited by: 10References: 8

    Two cross‐national women's organisations, one in Northern Ireland the other in Bosnia‐Herzegovina, are observed here in interaction with each other. The article explores the connection between their ability to sustain such cross‐community alliances and their choice to be women's projects. In so doing, it addresses the question ‘are feminism and nationalism compatible?’ Not all the women are ‘anti‐nationalist’ in philosophy, but they draw distinct…

  • Cet espace entre nous

    Cynthia Cockburn, Hélène Le Doaré et al.ARTICLECahiers du Genre1999

    The space between us. This text is the transcript of a lecture given by Cynthia Cockburn in November 1998 at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, marking the opening of a photo exhibition and the publication of a book on the theme of women and war. Both works were the result of research carried by Cockburn in three regions of the world confronted with armed conflict - Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Israel/Palestine. Placing hers…

  • Les relations internationales ont un genre. Le dialogue social en Europe

    Cynthia CockburnARTICLETravail genre et sociétés1999Cited by: 1References: 3

    L’Union Européenne a pris des mesures pour que syndicats (et employeurs) participent à la construction d’une politique européenne. Les structures et processus de ce “Dialogue social européen” constitueront ainsi un espace international dans lequel les syndicalistes des différents Etats-membres pourront se rencontrer et élaborer un programme commun. Les femmes se sont mobilisées à cet égard pour entrer dans l’arène et introduire une perspective de…

  • Domestic technologies: Cinderella and the engineers

    Open AccessCynthia CockburnARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1997Cited by: 9References: 5