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: 50.50Land, loss and longing: women and equalities in the north of Israel PalestineExpropriation of their land by the Israeli state is an ongoing injustice for its resident Palestinians. Cynthia...
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Published in: 50.50Guns, war and the domestic battlefieldAs guns proliferate in a worldwide market with few controls, many get diverted from state and rebel armies to petty...
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Published in: 50.50"Don’t talk to me about war. My life’s a battlefield."
When we’re looking for the links between war violence and male violence against women in peace time, we need to look...
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Published in: 50.50Longing for ‘normality’: women’s experience of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
Returning to Bosnia-Herzegovina after 17 years, Cynthia Cockburn finds Bosnian women criticizing their country's...
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Published in: 50.50Peace movements: violence reduction as common sense
If one thing holds the overall movement of peace movements together it is the goal of violence reduction. There’s a...
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Published in: 50.50Who do they think they are? War rapists as people
War is social, and examining soldier identity and male bonding may give us insight into how the incidence of sexual...