Catia Cecilia Confortini is Assistant Professor of Peace and Justice Studies at Wellesley College. Her research interests focus on the contribution of women's peace activism to peace studies as an academic field and as a practice. She is the US representative to WILPF's International Board for 2011-2014.

In this superbly sensitive and conceptually innovative book, we see the constitutive nature of women's peace activism and the radically changing international political context of the period from World War II to the mid-1970s in action. This is no small feat, but Confortini goes further, clearly articulating a productive relationship between feminist methodology, constructivism, and international relations theory that should be read by all students of feminism, international relations, and peace studies.

• List of Acronyms ; Chapter 1 What is Feminist Peace? ; Chapter 2 Feminist Critical Methodology, Peace and Social Change ; Chapter 3 "Evidence of Things Unseen": WILPF and Disarmament ; Chapter 4 What is Violence? WILPF and Decolonization ; Chapter 5 Orientalism and Peace: WILPF in the Middle East ; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Feminist Ways to Peace ; Epilogue ; Bibliography

Catia Cecilia Confortini is Assistant Professor of Peace and Justice Studies at Wellesley College. Her research interests focus on the contribution of women's peace activism to peace studies as an academic field and as a practice. She is the US representative to WILPF's International Board for 2011-2014.

In this superbly sensitive and conceptually innovative book, we see the constitutive nature of women's peace activism and the radically changing international political context of the period from World War II to the mid-1970s in action. This is no small feat, but Confortini goes further, clearly articulating a productive relationship between feminist methodology, constructivism, and international relations theory that should be read by all students of feminism, international relations, and peace studies.

• List of Acronyms ; Chapter 1 What is Feminist Peace? ; Chapter 2 Feminist Critical Methodology, Peace and Social Change ; Chapter 3 "Evidence of Things Unseen": WILPF and Disarmament ; Chapter 4 What is Violence? WILPF and Decolonization ; Chapter 5 Orientalism and Peace: WILPF in the Middle East ; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Feminist Ways to Peace ; Epilogue ; Bibliography

Catia Cecilia Confortini is Assistant Professor of Peace and Justice Studies at Wellesley College. Her research interests focus on the contribution of women's peace activism to peace studies as an academic field and as a practice. She is the US representative to WILPF's International Board for 2011-2014.

In this superbly sensitive and conceptually innovative book, we see the constitutive nature of women's peace activism and the radically changing international political context of the period from World War II to the mid-1970s in action. This is no small feat, but Confortini goes further, clearly articulating a productive relationship between feminist methodology, constructivism, and international relations theory that should be read by all students of feminism, international relations, and peace studies.

• List of Acronyms ; Chapter 1 What is Feminist Peace? ; Chapter 2 Feminist Critical Methodology, Peace and Social Change ; Chapter 3 "Evidence of Things Unseen": WILPF and Disarmament ; Chapter 4 What is Violence? WILPF and Decolonization ; Chapter 5 Orientalism and Peace: WILPF in the Middle East ; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Feminist Ways to Peace ; Epilogue ; Bibliography