Feminism and Nonviolence

The WRL Feminism and Nonviolence Task Force has put together an excellant compilation of links and resources exploring the connections between war, partiarchy, militarism, and gender.  

• Ten Reasons Why Militarism is Bad for Reproductive Freedom
• Diana Russell’s Anti-Femicide Publications
• Opposing Prostitution As a Form of Male Violence: the Swedish Model
• Asking the Right Questions: Gender and Nonviolence, War Resisters International
• Sexual Harassment and Nonviolent Action a review of Martha Langelan’s Book, Back Off, by Brian Martin
• Rape is All Too Thinkable for Quite the Normal Sort of Man, essay by Neal King and Martha McCaughey
• Conscientious Objection to Female Genital Mutilation in Mali, essay by Susan McLucas
• Grammar of Male Violence, essay by Jennie Ruby (pdf)
• I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape, Essay by Andrea Dworkin
• Looking Danger in the Eye, Essay by Sara Burke
• Patriarchy: A State of War, essay by Barbara Hope
• V Day: Until the Violence Stops
• Amnesty International’s Women’s Human Rights And the Stop Violence Against Women Campaign
• Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network US hotline
• National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, Ending violence within and against LGBT communities
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Incite: Women of Color Against Violence
• From Canada, Some Thoughts on Organizing against Femicide
• Ending Men's War Against Women, essay by Sam Diener
• "More Power Than We Want: Masculine Sexuality and Violence, essay by Bruce Kokopeli and George Lakey
• Mentors in Violence Prevention: Advocating Men become allies against violence against women
• Men Can Stop Rape
• White Ribbon Campaign: International Campaign to mobilize men to work against violence against women
• An Army of None, Essay by Aimee Allison
• Seneca Women’s Peace Camp for a Future of Peace of Justice Herstory Archive
• Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement
• Andrea Dworkin Online Library
• Quotations from Audre Lorde
• On Anger, an Essay by Barbara Deming
• Barbara Deming Memorial Peace Walk - essays by Barbara Deming
• Women and Life on Earth
• Starhawk: feminist nonviolent wiccan permacultural activist writer
• Code Pink: Women for Peace
• Iranian Women Protesters Strategize Against Violent Repression
• "Pakistani Rural Women Organize to End Male Domination, essay by Meena Munir, and Mrs. Nazish Najum"
• Outposts of Violence: Sixty Years of Women's Activism Against US Military Bases, essay by Suzuyo Takazato
• The Power of Love Conquers the Love of Power: Women of Zimbabwe Challenge Mugabe's Regime, essay by Women of Zimbabwe Arise
• Reform in Pakistan: Real Change, or a Band-Aid? Essay by Abira Ashfaq
• Do You Wear ''Camo''? Feminists Globalize Demilitarization, essay by Cynthia Enloe
• Placing So Much Hope on So Little: The World's First Fair Trade Zone, essay by Alyson Li
• Women’s Studies: 64 Days of Nonviolence at Southern CT University
• Global Sisterhood Network – links to global feminist activism news
• Feminist News Service
• Spotlight: Speaking Out Against Global Violence (Against Women)
• Off Our Backs Magazine
• Feminism, Peace, and Power, Essay by Mary Roadkowsky
• Masculinity as Foreign Policy Issue by Cynthia Enloe
• Reclaiming Nonviolence from Gandhian Puritanism, essay by Starhawk
• Women and Peace Course Syllabus
• Women’s Community Activism Course Syllabus
• Perspectives on Women, War and Peace Activism