Cynthia Cockburn Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Cynthia Cockburn (1934 – 12 September 2019) was a British academic, feminist, and peace activist.

As both an academic and activist, Cockburn presented talks at a number of conferences. In May 2017, she was honoured at the Gender and Peace Conference in Istanbul, and presented the keynote address.

On 14 October 2017, the journal Feminist Review celebrated Cockburn’s contribution to feminist scholarship by co-hosting an event with the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies and provided free access to a number of her published articles.

An active antimilitarist, she was involved in a number of peace and anti-war organisations. In 1981, she was part of a group of women who founded Women Against War in the Gulf, and in response to the Bosnian Yugoslav wars, the group evolved to become Women Against War Crime. From 1993, they began calling the group Women in Black in support of other international peace movement efforts, specifically those taking place in Israel, Italy, and Yugoslavia. She was also involved with Women Against Fundamentalism, the European Forum of Socialist Feminists, and was a member of the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom.

Cockburn was selected to be featured in the British Library project, ‘Sisterhood and After’, an oral history archive of feminists active in the 1970–1980s.