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An Alternative to Pacifism? Feminism and Just-War Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Lucinda J. Peach
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Abstract

Only rarely have feminist theorists addressed the adequacy of just-war theory, a set of/principles developed over hundreds of years to assess the justice of going to war and the morality of conduct in war. Recently, a few feminist scholars have found just-war theory inadequate, yet their own counterproposals are also deficient. I assess feminist contributions to just-war theorizingand suggest ways of strengthening, rather than abandoning, this moral approach to war.

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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminism and Peace , Spring 1994 , pp. 152 - 172
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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