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HARP-131 |
Title: |
Feminism, peace, human rights and human security |
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Canadian Woman Studies, v.22(2) Fall’02/Wint’03 pg 6-11 |
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Year: |
2002 |
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Canada, gender equality, human rights, non-discrimination, US, woman, politics, peace, feminist, war, civil and political rights, security, self-determination, liberty, assembly and association, freedom of thought |
Abstract: |
Generalizations about women and peace are difficult, especially for a white U.S. American who has not experienced war first-hand, but whose government has conducted countless military operations around the globe. What I do hope to do here is to raise some questions that come from struggling from that location to be simultaneously a feminist, human rights and anti-war/anti-imperialist activist. Acknowledging when and where we enter is a central tenet of feminist inquiry. Questions of women and peace/war are very particular, having to do with the specificity of each conflict–of time, place, race, ethnicity, class, religion, and other discrete circumstances–as well as related to various social constructions of gender, of masculinity and femininity. In that sense peace and the relation of women to war is a very local issue. And yet, women and war/peace is also a very universal subject discussed in a variety of ways for centuries. Throughout the twentieth century, and especially with the intensification of globalization and the rise of religious and ethnic fundamentalisms, feminists have found it useful to make cross-cultural comparisons, to share analysis and strategies, as well as to build international solidarities for peace. There is a dynamic tension between the universality of this subject and the need for global action by feminists on the one hand, and the necessity of being grounded in the particulars of each situation and not overlooking real differences among women on the other. |
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Keywords: assembly and association, Canada, civil and political rights, feminist, freedom of thought, gender equality, human rights, liberty, non-discrimination, peace, politics, security, self-determination, United States/USA, war, woman