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- ISBN 9780197629758
- Weight: 517g
- Dimensions: 236 x 164mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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A deep and historical examination of how the political influence of women at the ballot box has shaped the course of war and peace.
In the modern age, some parts of the world are experiencing a long peace. Nuclear weapons, capitalism and the widespread adoption of democratic institutions have been credited with fostering this relatively peaceful period. Yet, these accounts overlook one of the most dramatic transformations of the 20th century: the massive redistribution of political power as millions of women around the world won the right to vote.
Through gripping history and careful reasoning, this book examines how the political influence of women at the ballot box has shaped war and peace. What would a world ruled by women look like? For more than a hundred years, conventional wisdom held that women's votes had little effect. That view is changing - it turns out that women voters had a profound effect on the world we know and in ways we hardly understand. A world ruled by women's voices is a world that is less willing to fall in love with war as a noble end in itself, less prone to lapse into violence for the sake of maintaining an image. In other words, it is the world we live in now, more so than we have ever realized.
Robert Trager teaches International Relations at UCLA. He has written about the creation of international orders, the political control of emerging technologies, and other topics.
Joslyn Barnhart teaches International Relations at the University of California Santa Barbara. She has written extensively about national identity and collective emotion as a cause of war.
