The incorporation of previously marginalized segments of the population into film has allowed for the development of cinema as a discipline and art to tackle new complexities in approach and character. Link:…
An exploration of the gender roles presents in soldiers throughout the war, examining how the existence of beliefs in these roles determined the attitudes towards violence and conflict. Link:…
An exploration of how Tarantino’s Kill Bill, failed to challenge the dominant patriarchal, capitalist ideology using violence carried out by a female protagonist but instead served as an example of the existing…
This article echoes a larger scholarly debate about The Copenhagen School – also known as the securitization theory. See this bibliographic resource: Wæver (1995). To some extent, it defends and improves the theory to…
This text examines the poetry of Louisa Stuart Costello, a Romantic, Anglo-Irish poet, whose work, ‘The Maid of Cyprus Isle’, is often considered conventional until viewed through a pacifistic lens. Importantly,…
This text focuses on the life and work of British author Vera Brittain who lived through the horrors of the First World War and asserted that humanity should never experience such horrors again. The article examines…
This text investigates how institutional structures of power that enable the outbreak of war and violence are inextricably tied to a plethora of social issues including colonialism, sexism, racism, and ableism. The…
This article examines the notion of peace studies as a discipline that is dominated by female scholars and aims to examine this phenomenon. It notes a correlation between sexism and militarism and identifies the…
The text begins by relating the concept of motherhood to war, and, through references to the Iliad, establishes that there motherhood and militarism are inextricably linked with regards to questions of a mother’s…
The text focuses on Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women and studies it as a peace play with an astute awareness of the context of its creation, namely King James I’s comparatively-pacifistic approach to foreign…