“There is nothing automatic about becoming an adult male and soldiering. It’s a choice. And it’s a choice you don’t have to make.” - Cynthia Enloe

As militarisation is seeping more than ever into masculinities, we need to remember that this is not a ‘natural’ phenomenon, and that there are alternative choices everyone can make to fight this.

Welcome to Mobilising Men for Feminist Peace, a podcast from WILPF, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, in which we uncover the transformative power of feminist peace and explore how men can be active proponents of achieving gender equality and peace.

In this episode we discuss why feminism is an important framework to understand the world, what role masculinities play in the military and militarised empires, what militarised masculinities look like in the US today, and why we need to fight for feminist issues even during war.

Our guest is Professor Cynthia Enloe, a world-renowned feminist theorist and writer known for her work on gender and militarism.

Your hosts are:

• Dean Peacock, Project Director of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's initiative on men and militarism
• Reem Abbas, Communications Coordinator for the Mobilising Men for Feminist Peace Programme.

For more resources and information, visit wilpf.org and the Mobilising Men for Feminist Peace project page here.

You can listen to the Think & Resist podcast here.