  Transformational pacifism can also be linked to feminism and feminist critiques of the masculine values found in warrior cultures and the war system (see Poe 2017.  Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams is a prominent figure here. Addams connected her pragmatic hope for peace to democracy and the empowerment of women and the oppressed masses, who had in the past silently suffered from the horrors of war.  During World War I, Addams and her Women’s Peace Party worked to end the war and eventually ended up creating the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.  More recently authors such as Sara Ruddick and Nel Noddings have connected feminist criticism with pacifism and the ethics of care.  Ruddick notes that military thinking utilizes a variety of conceptual strategies that create a myth of “the manly just warrior, which interlocks myths of masculinity, sacrifice, and heroic death” (Ruddick 1995, 202).  Noddings has noted that “care ethics” does not support absolute pacifism, since care-givers may in rare circumstances kill in order to defend those they love. Nonetheless, Noddings argues that care ethics and feminism are concerned with a general critique of the militaristic and violent assumptions of male-dominant culture.  Noddings contends that our culture “puts a high value on the aggressive tendencies of males” (Noddings 2010, 215).  Her solution is to re-create culture and education in such as way as to devalue aggression and provide support for love, nurturance, solidarity, and care.