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The following pair of selections comprises the foundational interpretation of gender and war that has been and continues to be the basic conceptual framework of my writing on this topic, and the first retrospective reflections on the work, written on the occasion of republication in 1995, its 10th anniversary.
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This text was first published as: ‘Introduction’, in: Sexism and the War System (New York, Teachers College Press, 1985). The ‘Epilogue’ was added to its second edition that was published in: (Syracuse, NY: University of Syracuse Press, 1995). The permission to republish this text here was granted on 11 March 2014 by Deborah Manion, Office Coordinator, Syracuse University Press.
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014).
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Syracuse University Press published the present edition in 1995 in a series on landmarks in peace studies.
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The evolution of these ideas is outlined in a series of articles by Betty Reardon (1975–1983). Those not included in the References are “Debating the future,” Network, 8 (May/June 1980) (see Chap. 3 in this volume), “Women and disarmament: Traditional values in a transnational world,” in S. McClean (Ed.): Women’s contribution to peace (New York: UNESCO, 1981), “Research agenda for a gender analysis of militarism and sexist repression,” International Peace Research Newsletter, 21 (February 1983).
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See “Gender and the Agenda for Peace A Report of a U.N. Division for the Advancement of Women Experts Meeting,” December 1994, and “Women’s Contribution to a Culture of Peace A Report of a UNESCO Experts Meeting,” April 1995.
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Reardon, B.A. (2015). Introduction to the First Edition, Sexism and the War System and Epilogue to Second Edition. In: Betty A. Reardon: Key Texts in Gender and Peace. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11809-3_4
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