This book presents a rich collection of Betty A. Reardon’s writing on gender studies, sexism
and the war system, and human security from a feminist perspective. Betty A. Reardon
is a pioneer of gender studies who, as a feminist, identified the structural relationship
between sexism and the war system and, as a scholar, a shift from national to human
security. As a pioneer in contemporary theories on gender and peace, Betty A. Reardon
has continually developed research on the integral relationship between patriarchy and
war, and has been an outspoken advocate of gender issues as an essential aspect of peace
studies, of problems of gender equity as the subject of peace research, and of gender
experience as a crucial factor in defining and attaining human security. Her work evolved
in the context of international women’s movements for human rights, peace and the
United Nations, and is widely drawn upon by activists and educators in order to introduce
a gender perspective to peace studies and education and a peace perspective to women’s
studies