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War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Chris J. Cuomo
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Abstract

Although my position is in basic agreement with the notion that war and militarism are feminist issues, I argue that approaches to the ethics of war and peace which do not consider “peacetime” military violence are inadequate for feminist and environmentalist concerns. Because much of the military violence done to women and ecosystems happens outside the boundaries of declared wars, feminist and environmental philosophers ought to emphasize the significance of everyday military violence.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women and Violence , Fall 1996 , pp. 30 - 45
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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