Women Conscientious Objectors

Conscientious objectors are generally seen as male – as are soldiers. This book breaks with this assumption. Women conscientiously object to military service and militarism, not only in countries that conscript women – such as Eritrea and Israel – but also in countries without conscription of women. In doing so, they redefine antimilitarism from a feminist perspective, opposing not only militarism, but also a form of antimilitarism that creates the male conscientious objector as the “hero” of antimilitarist struggle.