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https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.60.3.01

Women’s peace: Reexamining women’s anti-war politics of resistance in Lysistrata in analogy with Russian maternal-women’s activism

Hrvoje Cvijanović orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-0742-0844 ; Fakultet političkih znanosti, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska


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The author starts from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata as a paradigmatic anti-war ‎text of women’s politics of resistance, but reconsiders its reading as a feminist ‎critique of war as well as a critique of Athenian imperialism. First, the author ‎points out that women’s politics of resistance through sex-strike and occupation of public space is not necessarily connected with anti-war beliefs, but ‎stems from the protection of the “women’s world” of private relations and the ‎household. Second, the “women’s peace” that satirizes the Athenian leadership has an anti-democratic connotation, namely it is not a criticism of Athenian imperialism, but its defense. Finally, in analogy with Lysistrata, Russian women’s activism is questioned as a reaction to Russia’s aggressive wars ‎in Chechnya and Ukraine. This activism primarily starts from motherhood ‎as a legitimate form of articulating the problem of war, but does not question the war itself. The author concludes that such women’s activism, which ‎stems from the rationality of care for the well-being of children and husbands, ‎whether in Lysistrata or the one that mostly manifests itself in Russian mothers and women, is not politically or value-based, does not articulate coherent anti-militaristic or pacifist attitudes, and therefore is not truly anti-war. ‎In the context of Russia, by demanding better conditions for men in the army, maternal-women’s activism is actually a strategy for optimizing the war, ‎not significantly opposing or even supporting Russia’s state-proclaimed war ‎goals.‎

Ključne riječi

Women’s Anti-War Politics of Resistance; Women’s World; Lysistrata; Russia; Russian Maternal-Women’s Activism

Hrčak ID:

310257

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/310257

Datum izdavanja:

29.11.2023.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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