After the Second World War, European women once again became involved in peace initiatives, mainly as a result of the Cold War, while from the 1960s the Vietnam War led to renewed interest in the United States.
(meta data) TITLE: International Women's Peace Movements | EHNE Skip to main content Encyclopédie pour une Histoire Nouvelle de l'Europe ## Search form Chercher dans ce site -Tout-NoticesAuteurFonds Colbert ## On the same subjet Feminism and the Global Justice Movement International Women´s Day (IWD), March 8th European Feminisms in the Face of Fascisms Reception of The Second Sex in Europe Feminism and Neo-Malthusianism European Women and the Main International Women's Organizations European Women's Lobby (EWL) Naming Themselves: A Militant Act for Feminists (1967-1991) Mots clés feminism / gender / militancy / pacifism / peace / politics ## Themes of the encyclopedia Material civilization Political epistemology European humanism Europe, Europeans and the World Wars and traces of war Gender and Europe European art ## You are here Accueil»Encyclopedia»Gender and Europe»Feminisms and feminist movements»International Women's Peace Movements -A A + International women's peace movements took on different forms: in the 19th century, internationally minded women pacifists often initially built contacts between two or three countries. In the first half of the 20th century, international organisational structures were established. Moreover, some existing international women's organisations turned towards peace work in the mid-1920s and 1930s. After 1945, European women's peace work was confronted with new political constellations and global perspectives. Campaigning against the arms race led to new activities which were less formally organised but influenced female pacifism in many countries. In feminist pacifist discourse, peace was always linked to other topics which were seen as reciprocal, influential and highly important for future peacekeeping, such as women's rights, democracy, nutrition and socioeconomic contexts, education or environmentalism. Author-s Annika WILMERS BROWN Heloise, 'The truest form of patriotism': Pacifist feminism in Britain, 1870–1902, (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003). COOPER Sanid E., "Women in War and Peace, 1914-1945" in Renate Bridenthal et al., eds., Becoming Visible: Women in European History 3rd ed., (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1998), pp. 439-460 HERTRAMPF Susanne, ‚ZumWohle der Menschheit'. Feministisches Denken und Engagement internationaler Aktivistinnen 1945-1975, Herbol zheim, (CentaurusVerlag, 2005). RUPP Leila, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women's Movement, (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997) WILMERS Annika, Pazifismus in der internationalen Frauenbewegung (1914-1920). Handlungsspielräume, politische Konzeptionen und gesellschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen, (Essen, Klartext Verlag, 2008). ## To quote from this article Annika WILMERS , « International Women's Peace Movements », Encyclopédie pour une histoire nouvelle de l'Europe [online], ISSN 2677-6588, 2016, published 09/07/2018, consulted 24/08/2019. Permalink : http://ehne.fr/en/node/1322
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List of women pacifists and peace activists
Introduction.
Women have been active in peace movements since the 19th century. After the First World War broke out in 1914, many women's organizations became involved in peace activities. In 1915, the International Congress of Women in the Hague brought together representatives from women's associations in several countries, leading to the establishment of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. This in turn led to national chapters which continued their work in the 1920s and 1930s.