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A family member of an Israeli hostage gives a speech in Tel Aviv on March 14, 2024. Family members of the 134 Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip for 160 days marched and demonstrated in the streets. (Matan Golan / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)

By Stacy Keltner | Feminist lessons of war are traumatically and often fatally difficult to come by. In her 2023 book, Twelve Feminist Lessons of War, Cynthia Enloe offers a list that includes: “Women’s wars are not men’s wars,” “wounds are gendered” and “feminists organize while war is raging.” She declares that “feminist lessons are for everyone.”

Cochav Elkayam-Levy is still figuring out the feminist lessons to be learned from the Oct. 7 attack. As she has come to accept, this will be her life’s work.

(This article originally appears in the Summer 2024 issue of Ms. Join the Ms. community today and you’ll get issues delivered straight to your mailbox!)

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“Peace Begins With Her,” an interactive street-art exhibition to honor the contributions of women to peace was held on Oct. 25 outside the main entrance to the United Nations headquarters, coinciding with the annual Security Council debate on the topic, happening inside. The temporary installation was hosted by several U.N. agencies and attended by numerous women peacekeepers. (John Penney / PassBlue)

By Dawn Clancy | The number of women and girls living in conflict-affected countries reached 614 million in 2022—50 percent higher than the number in 2017. To end war and bring lasting peace, women must be involved at the highest levels of peacemaking and peace-building processes, no matter the size or shakiness of the proverbial negotiating table. And regardless of how many men with or without guns dominate the proceedings.

“Men are making the decisions, but it’s the women that feel the impact more. [That’s why] it’s really important for women to be part of the decision-making when it involves peace and security.”

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By Amy Polacko and Christine Cocchiola | In their groundbreaking new book, Framed: Women in the Family Court Underworld, Dr. Christine M. Cocchiola and Amy Polacko expose the gender biased injustice in family courts. Through the stories of 22 real women from the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia the authors shine a light on how women are accused, arrested, abused and can even lose custody of their children—to their abusers. 

“Most people have no idea what really happens when you get divorced—until they find themselves entering the world of family court. It is an abuser’s playground,” said Polacko.

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