Dr. Cynthia Cockburn is a feminist researcher and writer, honorary professor in Sociology at City University London, and at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick. She lives in London. Her new book is Looking to London, published this month by Pluto Press.
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Published in: 50.50Executed: what were the principles for which Edith Cavell lived and died?Nurse Edith Cavell was shot by a German firing squad in 1915. The words 'For King and Country' are inscribed on her...
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Published in: 50.50Women's power to stop war: Hubris or hope?In the first of a series of articles marking the hundredth year of the Women's International League for Peace and...
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Published in: 50.50Plotting for a woman-shaped peace: Syrian and Bosnian women conferBosnian women live with the malign consequences of a peace agreement engineered by internationals between male war...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual exploitation in street gangs: protecting girls or changing boys?In its recent report on sexual exploitation in street gangs, the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence in Bosnia: how war lives on in everyday life
Rape has been recognized as a war crime in international and Bosnian law, but women survivors seldom receive the...
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Published in: 50.50Marxism and feminism have a lot to tell each other: can they find the words?Thirty years ago women were writing of 'the unhappy marriage of marxism and feminism'. Though the two schools of...