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The masculinisation of complexity

You would think a peace movement would be the least patriarchal of all social movements but you can masculinise anything. Feminist understanding challenges what it really takes to make peace.

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Large sepia group photo of women in 1915
Large sepia group photo of women in 1915

The founders of WILPF

Cynthia Enloe spoke to Marion Bowman this week at WILPF's Centenary Conference in the Hague on 'Women's Power to Stop War'.

Marion Bowman: The 1915 Women’s Congress at which the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded had a backdrop of social segregation between women and men with women excluded from public life. Is the backdrop different now?