ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author outlines one version of a feminist peace politics. Accordingly, it seeks to expose the multiple costs of violence and to disrupt the plans of those who organize it. This politics also ferrets out hidden or less organized violence wherever it appears—rdroom or bedroom, government council or factory. Finally, this politics is committed to inventing myriad forms of nonviolent disruption, cooperation, respect, restraint, and resistance that would replace violence and would constitute "peace." A feminist peace politics, like peace politics generally, searches for alternatives to exploding, cutting, bombing, and starving. The abstract, bounded, justificatory concepts of just-war theory short circuit this search by allowing the morally troubled to accept good-enough wars in place of the many kinds of cooperation, compromise, and resistance required for peace. To reveal the peacefulness of care it will be necessary to compare, in detail, and over a wide range of characteristics, militarist and caregiving enterprises.
