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Cynthia Cockburn is a feminist researcher, photographer, activist and writer focusing on the intersection of gender studies, peace and conflict studies. She is a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at City University London and an honorary professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick. Her studies has shed light on women’s organisations that work across ethno-national lines in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel/Palestine and Cyprus. In 2007, Cockburn published "From Where We Stand: War, Women’s Activism and Feminist Analysis" (Zed Books), a study of women’s worldwide activism against war. http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/about.html The book shows how women from different sides of conflicts collaborate and work for dialogue and peace. http://www.amazon.com/Where-We-Stand-Activism-Feminist/dp/1842778218/ref=la_B001HPZ0Z2_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433264616&sr=1-1

Her most recent book is "Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements" (Palgrave, 2012) focuses on gender in processes of war and peace and features movements, amongst other countries, in South Korea, Japan, Spain, the UK. http://www.wilpfinternational.org/academic-network/members-a-n/

Since 1995 Cockburn has been researching and working with women peace activists in conflict areas, where she has done a number of qualitative action-research. http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/about.html http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/PubnsArticles2014.pdf Previously, her research focused on local governance, feminist gender studies of the labour process, the sexual division of labour, and change in the workplace, men, masculinity and skill, transformative change in trade unions and employing organisations, and the gender relations of technology. http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/about.html

Cockburn is active in the international feminist antimilitarist networks, Women in Black against War and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/about.html

Books authored, co-authored and edited by Cynthia Cockburn:
The Local State: Management of Cities and People (1977) London: Pluto Press. (Sole author). ISBN 0 904383 48 2 paperback and 0 904383 49 0 hardback.

In and Against the State (1981) London: Pluto Press. (Group authorship: ‘The London Edinburgh Weekend Return Group’). ISBN 0 86104 327 8

Brothers: Male Dominance and Technical Change (1983 and new edition with `Afterword' 1991) London: Pluto Press. (Sole author). ISBN 0-86104-384-7.

Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-how (1985) London: Pluto Press, and Boston: North Eastern University Press. (Sole author) ISBN 0-7453-0065-0. Published in German as Die Herrschaftsmaschine. 1988. Hamburg: Argument Verlag. ISBN 3-88619-372-1.

Two-Track Training: Sex Inequalities and the Youth Training Scheme (1987) London: Macmillan, Youth Questions Series. (Sole author). ISBN 0-333- 43289-4.

In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations (1991) London: Macmillan and Ithaca New York: ILR Press. (Sole author.) ISBN 0-333-54913-9. Published in German as Blockierte Frauenwege: Wie Manner Gleichheit in Institutionen und Betrieben verweigern, Hamburg: Argument-Verlag, 1993. ISBN 3-88619-212-1.

Gender and Technology in the Making (1993) London and Newbury Park: Sage Publications. (Co-authored with Susan Ormrod). ISBN 0-8039-8811-7.

Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe (1994) Milton Keynes: Open University Press. (Co-edited with Ruza Furst- Dilic). ISBN 0-335-19158-4.

Women in the European Social Dialogue: Strategies for Gender Democracy (1995) Social Europe, Supplement 4/95, 105 pages. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. In official EU languages. (Sole author)

Women in the Europeanizing of Industrial Relations: A Study in Five Member States (with Maria Carmen Alemany Gomez, Myriam Bergamaschi, Hildegard Maria Nickel, and Chantal Rogerat) (1994). V/664/94-EN. 150 pages approx. Brussels: European Commission. English.

The Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict (1998) London: Zed Books. (Sole author) ISBN: 1 85649 617 1 hardback, 1 85649 617 x paperback. Published in Russian as Prostranstvo mezhdu nami: Obsuzhdenie gendemykh I natsional'nykh identichnostiej v konfliktakh. Perevod: M.Torkhshoievoi. 2002. Moskva: Idieja-Press (ISBN 5-7333-0055-8). Published in Turkish as Mesafeyi Asmak: Baris Mucadelesinde Kadinlar. Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari. 2004. ISBN 975-05-0212-4. Published in Japanese as Funso ka no jennda- to esunisity; nashinaru aidenntiti o koete, Akashi Shoten, Tokyo. 2004. ISBN 4-7503-1998-8. Also published in Georgian (2002, ISBN 99928-45-96-1), Serbo-Croat (2003, ISBN 953 99298-0-6), Bulgarian (date? ISBN?), and Japanese (date? ISBN 4-7503-1998-8 CO336).

Women Organizing for Change: A study of women's local integrative organizations in the pursuit of democracy in Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Co- authored, with Meliha Hubic and Rada Stakic-Domuz.) Published by Medica Women’s Association, Bosnia, and the Open Society Institute. ‘Drugi Pogled’ Series No.5. 2001. ISBN 9958-9586-8-6 and 9 789958 958687. Published in Bosnian language as Zivjeti Zajedno Ili Zivjeti Odvojeno. Drugli Pogled series No.5, Zenica, June 2001.

The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping. (Co-edited with Dubravka Zarkov.) London: Lawrence and Wishart. 2002. ISBN: 0-85315-946-7

The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in Cyprus. London and New York: Zed Books. 2004. (Sole author) ISBN 1 84277 420 4 and 421 2. Published in Turkish as Hat: Kibrista Kadinlar, Taksim ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Duzeni. Istanbul: Iletisim. 2005. ISBN 975 05 0375 9. Published in Greek by Metaixmio, Athens. 2006. ISBN 978-960-455- 306-8

From Where We Stand: War, Women’s Activism and Feminist Analysis. London and New York: Zed Books. 2007. (Sole author) ISBN 978 1 84277 821 0 paperback, and 820 3 hardback. Published in Spanish as Mujeres ante la Guerra: Desde Donde Estamos. Barcelona: Icaria. 2007. ISBN 978-84-9888-073-1. Published in Turkish as Buradan Baktigimizda: Kadinlarin Militarizme Karsi Mucadelesi. 2009. Istanbul: Metis Yayinlari. Published in Korean by Sam In Publishers, Seoul. 2009. ISBN 978-89- 6436-001-9.

Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements (Sole author) Basingstoke, UK, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0- 230-35974-1 (hardback) and 978-0-230-35975-8 (paperback).