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Intelligent Compassion Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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Intelligent Compassion

Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Catia Cecilia Confortini

OUP USA

208 pages | 235x156mm

978-0-19-984523-1 | Hardback | 27 September 2012

Price: £40.00

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Focuses on 1945-1975, a period of women's activism not often studied
Draws upon archival sources of oldest international women's organization
Includes original interviews with women peace activists

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has a unique role in post-war peace activism. It is the longest-surviving international women's peace organization and one of the oldest peace organizations in the West. It was founded in 1915, when a group of women from countries fighting in World War I met at The Hague to formulate proposals for ending the war. The organization sent delegations of women to several countries to plead for peace, and their final resolutions are credited with influencing Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points. Today, the organization counts several thousand members in 36 countries, on five continents. Since 1948, it has enjoyed consultative status with the UN, and it was instrumental in bringing about recent United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security.

Beginning in 1945, WILPF began identifying the limitations of its ideological foundations in relation to the international liberal order. Confortini argues that this period ushered in a turn in the organization's policies and activism, one that lasted until the mid-70s and served as an important antecedent to feminist activism that continues today. By tracing the organization's changing strategies and ideas over a thirty-year period, Intelligent Compassion seeks to answer to what extent activists can transcend the prevailing practices of their eras. Confortini argues that this history is important theoretically because it inspires the development of a critical constructivist theory of agency that advances the agent-structure debate in International Relations theory.

Readership: Graduate and postgraduate students and scholars in peace studies, women's history and especially feminist international relations. International Relations and Peace Studies scholars, including IR theorists, feminist international security scholars, women's peace history scholars and social movement theorists.

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