Cynthia Cockburn

Cynthia Cockburn
Born
Cynthia Kay Ellis[1]

24 July 1934 (1934)
Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, England
Died12 September 2019(2019-09-12) (aged 85)
NationalityBritish
Academic work
InstitutionsCity University London (visiting professor), University of Warwick (honorary professor)
Notable ideasantimilitarism, gender democracy

Cynthia Kay Cockburn (née Ellis; 1934 – 2019)[2][3] was a British academic, feminist, and peace activist.

Early life

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Cynthia Kay Ellis was born in Barrow upon Soar, a village in rural Leicestershire, to father Shirley Ellis and mother Constance (née King). She attended Malvern St James Girls School.[4][2]

Career

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Cockburn was a researcher in the fields of gender, war and peace-making, labour processes and trade unionism, and refugees. She was active in the international women's peace movement.[5][4]

Cockburn was a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at City University London and honorary professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick.[6][4][7]

An active antimilitarist, she was involved in a number of peace and anti-war organisations. In 1981, she was part of a group of women who founded Women Against War in the Gulf, and in response to the Bosnian Yugoslav wars, the group evolved to become Women Against War Crime. From 1993, they began calling the group Women in Black in support of other international peace movement efforts, specifically those taking place in Israel, Italy, and Yugoslavia.[8] She was also involved with Women Against Fundamentalism, the European Forum of Socialist Feminists,[5] and was a member of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom.[9]

As both an academic and activist, Cockburn presented talks at a number of conferences. In May 2017, she was honoured at the Gender and Peace Conference in Istanbul, and presented the keynote address.[10][11]

Cockburn was selected to be featured in the British Library project, 'Sisterhood and After', an oral history archive of feminists active in the 1970–1980s.[5]

On 14 October 2017, the journal Feminist Review celebrated Cockburn's contribution to feminist scholarship by co-hosting an event with the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies and provided free access to a number of her published articles.[12]

Cockburn was widely published in academic journals, including in Feminist Review,[13] Gender & Development,[14] Journal of Classical Sociology,[15] Peace in Process.[16] She also wrote for The Guardian,[17][18] Red Pepper,[19] Peace News,[20] IndyMedia UK,[21] and OpenDemocracy.[22]

Publications

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Cockburn published a number of academic books including:

  • The Local State: Management of Cities and People (1977, Pluto Press)
  • In and Against the State (1981, Pluto Press)
  • Brothers: Male Dominance and Technical Change (1983, Pluto Press)
  • Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-how (1985, Pluto Press)
  • Two-Track Training: Sex Inequalities and the Youth Training Scheme (1987, Macmillan)
  • In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations (1991, Macmillan)
  • Gender and Technology in the Making (1993, Sage Publications, with Susan Ormrod)
  • Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe (1994, Oxford University Press, with Ruza Furst-Dilic)
  • Women in the Europeanizing of Industrial Relations: A Study in Five Member States (1994, European Commission, with Maria Carmen Alemany Gomez, Myriam Bergamaschi, Hildegard Maria Nickel, and Chantal Rogerat)
  • The Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict (1998, Zed Books)
  • The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping (2002, Lawrence and Wishar, with Dubravka Zarkov)
  • The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in Cyprus (2004, Zed Books)
  • From Where We Stand: War, Women’s Activism and Feminist Analysis (2007, Zed Books)
  • Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements (2012, Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Looking to London: Stories of War, Escape and Asylum (2017, Pluto Press)

Publications by Cockburn have been translated into German, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Georgian, Bosnian, Serbo-Croat, Bulgarian, Greek, Spanish, Korean, and Catalan.[23]

References

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  1. ^ "Cockburn [née Ellis], Cynthia Kay (1937–2019), sociologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b Al-Ali, Nadje (24 September 2019). "Cynthia Cockburn obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  3. ^ Valdés, Ana (17 September 2019). "Fredsaktivisten och feministen Cynthia Cockburn är död". Ny Tid (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 19 October 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Looking to London". Pluto Press. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  5. ^ a b c "Cynthia Cockburn". The British Library. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  6. ^ "People - Department of Sociology". University of Warwick. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Cynthia Cockburn". WILPF. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Cynthia Cockburn discusses Women in Black". The British Library. Archived from the original on 8 December 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Academics". WILPF. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Gender & Peace Conference, 6-7 May 2017, Istanbul". Sabanci University. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Cynthia Cockburn's Keynote Speech at Gender and Peace Conference in Istanbul, May 2017". YouTube. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Celebrating Cynthia Cockburn". Feminist Review | palgrave. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  13. ^ Cockburn, Cynthia (2013). "what became of 'frontline feminism'? a retroperspective on post-conflict Belfast". Feminist Review. 105 (105): 103–121. doi:10.1057/fr.2013.20. JSTOR 24571901.
  14. ^ Cockburn, Cynthia (12 November 2013). "War and security, women and gender: an overview of the issues". Gender & Development. 21 (3): 433–452. doi:10.1080/13552074.2013.846632.
  15. ^ Cockburn, Cynthia (29 May 2012). "Who are "we"?', asks one of us". Journal of Classical Sociology. 12 (2): 205–219. doi:10.1177/1468795X12441963.
  16. ^ Cockburn, Cynthia (February 2015). "Transversal Politics: a practice of Peace". Peace in Process. 22. Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  17. ^ "Cynthia Cockburn". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  18. ^ "Domestic violence must be about prevention as well as protection". The Guardian. 27 February 2014. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  19. ^ Cockburn, Cynthia (15 July 2014). "Guerrilla woolfare". Red Pepper. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  20. ^ "Cockburn, Cynthia, Peace News". www.peacenews.info. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  21. ^ Cockburn, Cynthia. "The Trials of Pinar Selek". UK Indymedia. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  22. ^ "Cynthia Cockburn". openDemocracy. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  23. ^ "Bibliography". Cynthia Cockburn. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.

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