This book presents a rich collection of Betty A. Reardon's writing on gender studies sexism
and the war system and human security from a feminist perspective. Betty A. Reardon is a
pioneer of gender studies who as a feminist identified the structural relationship between
sexism and the war system and as a scholar a shift from national to human security. As a
pioneer in contemporary theories on gender and peace Betty A. Reardon has continually
developed research on the integral relationship between patriarchy and war and has been an
outspoken advocate of gender issues as an essential aspect of peace studies of problems of
gender equity as the subject of peace research and of gender experience as a crucial factor in
defining and attaining human security. Her work evolved in the context of international women's
movements for human rights peace and the United Nations and is widely drawn upon by activists
and educators in order to introduce a gender perspective to peace studies and education and a
peace perspective to women's studies.
