Cynthia Cockburn

Cynthia Cockburn (1934 – 12 September 2019) was a British academic, feminist journalist, and peace activist. She was active in the international women's peace movement.^[1] 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.^[2]

Cynthia Cockburn in March 2015

Cockburn was widely published in academic journals, including in Feminist Review,^[3] Gender & Development,^[4] Journal of Classical Sociology,^[5] Peace in Process.^[6]

Cockburn died on 13 September 2019 of thyroid cancer at her London home at the age of 85.^[7]

References

1. "Looking to London". Pluto Press. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
2. "People - Department of Sociology". University of Warwick. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
3. 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. S2CID 145701033.
4. 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. S2CID 144760086.
5. Cockburn, Cynthia (29 May 2012). "Who are "we"?', asks one of us". Journal of Classical Sociology. 12 (2): 205–219. doi:10.1177/1468795X12441963. S2CID 144389926.
6. Cockburn, Cynthia (February 2015). "Transversal Politics: a practice of Peace". Peace in Process. 22. Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
7. Valdés, Ana (17 September 2019). "Fredsaktivisten och feministen Cynthia Cockburn är död". Ny Tid (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 September 2019.

Other websites

• Personal website
• Women in Black - London