Catia C Confortini
Biographic Data
| ID | 4211281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catia C Confortini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catia C |
| FAMILY NAME | Confortini |
| SIGNATURE | CONFORTINI C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0069-4420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unruly wives in the household
Feminist scholars and activists have historically been written out of peace research, despite their strong presence in the early stages of the field. In this article, we develop the concept of “wifesization” to illustrate the process through which feminist and feminized interventions have been reduced to appendages of the field, their contributions appropriated for its development but unworthy of mention as independent producers of knowledge. Wif…
Collective Discussion
Feminist peace research is an emerging field of social sciences that is transdisciplinary, intersectional, and normative—as well as transnational. Although it draws from disciplines such as peace and conflict research (in and outside of international relations [IR]) as well as feminist security studies, it also differs from them in terms of research scope and research design. Consequently, it not only provides insights on what can be termed “spec…
Gender, Global Health, and Violence
Past as Prefigurative Prelude
This chapter advocates for a prefigurative international relations (IR) theory which, like prefigurative politics, would reflect in our ways of doing theory today the hope and vision for a more just and peaceful future. Carl Boggs defines prefigurative politics as "the embodiment, within the ongoing practice of a movement, of those forms of social relations, decision-making, culture, and human experience that are the ultimate goal". Prefiguration…
Weakest “P” in the 1325 Pod? Realizing Conflict Prevention through Security Council Resolution 1325
The year 2015 marked the fifteenth anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women and Peace and Security. This article analyzes the marginalization of the resolution’s prevention mandate in the theoretical and policy literatures. Our feminist analysis reveals that shortcomings in the policy arena are foreshadowed in conflict prevention scholarship. Conflict prevention research under-theorizes gender drivers of conf…
Breast cancer in the global south and the limitations of a biomedical framing
Public health researchers are devoting increasing attention to the growing burden of breast cancer in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), previously thought to be minimally impacted by this disease. A critical examination of this body of literature is needed to explore the assumptions, advantages and limitations of current approaches. In our critical literature review, we find that researchers and public health practitioners predominantly pr…
Symposium
Sara Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking as weaving epistemology for justpeace
How is it possible to create more just forms of peace in our world? This article responds to calls for a feminist theory/peace studies collaboration by integrating work on feminist care ethics and conflict transformation. We propose that justpeace is possible by strengthening ways of knowing which sustainably weave together understandings of “self” and “other” to support relationships of care over dehumanization and violence. Building on Sara Rud…
Violence Against Women, Masculinities, and the Global Economy
How Matters
This paper follows a 1975 WILPF's “fact‐finding trip” to the Middle East and compares it to previous WILPF's official and unofficial trips to the area. My purpose is to analyze and to assess the extent to which these trips can be called “feminist” and the extent to which feminism makes a difference in the kind of “fact‐finding trip” that is undertaken and its results. Though there arguably exist several “feminisms,” I argue that certain common el…
A Review of “Toward a Credible Pacifism
Doing Feminist Peace
The history of the oldest international women's peace organization, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), presents a practical lesson for individuals and organizations interested in bringing about social change, as well as a theoretical lesson for those concerned with conceptualizing social change. WILPF's positions on decolonization between 1945 and 1975 show how historical circumstances and ideological environment inte…
G altung , V iolence, and G ender
My paper argues for an incorporation of feminist theories into peace theories, by analyzing what is missing by not confronting feminist contributions to a theory on violence. I take Johan Galtung's theory of violence as a point of departure, as a theory that is widely uncontested in peace studies. Galtung's articulation of direct, structural, and cultural violence offers a unified framework within which all violence can be seen. On the other hand…
Common Ground or Mutual Exclusion? Women's Movements and International Relations
You Still Don't Understand
G altung , V iolence, and G ender
My paper argues for an incorporation of feminist theories into peace theories, by analyzing what is missing by not confronting feminist contributions to a theory on violence. I take Johan Galtung's theory of violence as a point of departure, as a theory that is widely uncontested in peace studies. Galtung's articulation of direct, structural, and cultural violence offers a unified framework within which all violence can be seen. On the other hand…
Unruly wives in the household
Feminist scholars and activists have historically been written out of peace research, despite their strong presence in the early stages of the field. In this article, we develop the concept of “wifesization” to illustrate the process through which feminist and feminized interventions have been reduced to appendages of the field, their contributions appropriated for its development but unworthy of mention as independent producers of knowledge. Wif…
Collective Discussion
Feminist peace research is an emerging field of social sciences that is transdisciplinary, intersectional, and normative—as well as transnational. Although it draws from disciplines such as peace and conflict research (in and outside of international relations [IR]) as well as feminist security studies, it also differs from them in terms of research scope and research design. Consequently, it not only provides insights on what can be termed “spec…
Doing Feminist Peace
The history of the oldest international women's peace organization, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), presents a practical lesson for individuals and organizations interested in bringing about social change, as well as a theoretical lesson for those concerned with conceptualizing social change. WILPF's positions on decolonization between 1945 and 1975 show how historical circumstances and ideological environment inte…
Weakest “P” in the 1325 Pod? Realizing Conflict Prevention through Security Council Resolution 1325
The year 2015 marked the fifteenth anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women and Peace and Security. This article analyzes the marginalization of the resolution’s prevention mandate in the theoretical and policy literatures. Our feminist analysis reveals that shortcomings in the policy arena are foreshadowed in conflict prevention scholarship. Conflict prevention research under-theorizes gender drivers of conf…
Sara Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking as weaving epistemology for justpeace
How is it possible to create more just forms of peace in our world? This article responds to calls for a feminist theory/peace studies collaboration by integrating work on feminist care ethics and conflict transformation. We propose that justpeace is possible by strengthening ways of knowing which sustainably weave together understandings of “self” and “other” to support relationships of care over dehumanization and violence. Building on Sara Rud…
Symposium
You Still Don't Understand
Common Ground or Mutual Exclusion? Women's Movements and International Relations
G altung , V iolence, and G ender
My paper argues for an incorporation of feminist theories into peace theories, by analyzing what is missing by not confronting feminist contributions to a theory on violence. I take Johan Galtung's theory of violence as a point of departure, as a theory that is widely uncontested in peace studies. Galtung's articulation of direct, structural, and cultural violence offers a unified framework within which all violence can be seen. On the other hand…
A Review of “Toward a Credible Pacifism
Doing Feminist Peace
The history of the oldest international women's peace organization, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), presents a practical lesson for individuals and organizations interested in bringing about social change, as well as a theoretical lesson for those concerned with conceptualizing social change. WILPF's positions on decolonization between 1945 and 1975 show how historical circumstances and ideological environment inte…
Violence Against Women, Masculinities, and the Global Economy
How Matters
This paper follows a 1975 WILPF's “fact‐finding trip” to the Middle East and compares it to previous WILPF's official and unofficial trips to the area. My purpose is to analyze and to assess the extent to which these trips can be called “feminist” and the extent to which feminism makes a difference in the kind of “fact‐finding trip” that is undertaken and its results. Though there arguably exist several “feminisms,” I argue that certain common el…
Symposium
Sara Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking as weaving epistemology for justpeace
How is it possible to create more just forms of peace in our world? This article responds to calls for a feminist theory/peace studies collaboration by integrating work on feminist care ethics and conflict transformation. We propose that justpeace is possible by strengthening ways of knowing which sustainably weave together understandings of “self” and “other” to support relationships of care over dehumanization and violence. Building on Sara Rud…
Breast cancer in the global south and the limitations of a biomedical framing
Public health researchers are devoting increasing attention to the growing burden of breast cancer in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), previously thought to be minimally impacted by this disease. A critical examination of this body of literature is needed to explore the assumptions, advantages and limitations of current approaches. In our critical literature review, we find that researchers and public health practitioners predominantly pr…
Weakest “P” in the 1325 Pod? Realizing Conflict Prevention through Security Council Resolution 1325
The year 2015 marked the fifteenth anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women and Peace and Security. This article analyzes the marginalization of the resolution’s prevention mandate in the theoretical and policy literatures. Our feminist analysis reveals that shortcomings in the policy arena are foreshadowed in conflict prevention scholarship. Conflict prevention research under-theorizes gender drivers of conf…
Past as Prefigurative Prelude
This chapter advocates for a prefigurative international relations (IR) theory which, like prefigurative politics, would reflect in our ways of doing theory today the hope and vision for a more just and peaceful future. Carl Boggs defines prefigurative politics as "the embodiment, within the ongoing practice of a movement, of those forms of social relations, decision-making, culture, and human experience that are the ultimate goal". Prefiguration…
Collective Discussion
Feminist peace research is an emerging field of social sciences that is transdisciplinary, intersectional, and normative—as well as transnational. Although it draws from disciplines such as peace and conflict research (in and outside of international relations [IR]) as well as feminist security studies, it also differs from them in terms of research scope and research design. Consequently, it not only provides insights on what can be termed “spec…
Gender, Global Health, and Violence
Unruly wives in the household
Feminist scholars and activists have historically been written out of peace research, despite their strong presence in the early stages of the field. In this article, we develop the concept of “wifesization” to illustrate the process through which feminist and feminized interventions have been reduced to appendages of the field, their contributions appropriated for its development but unworthy of mention as independent producers of knowledge. Wif…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Feminism (6 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works)