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pacifists. In Telling Tales about Men (2010), and several other studies, Bibbings has shown that pacifist men were continually subjected to cruel treatment (despite their legal capacity to object) and much of their punishment and character assassination was gender-based – there was nothing more effeminate and cowardly than a man willing to stand up for his beliefs when the nation was mobilised behind the war effort and behind the very essentialised construct of the citizen soldier’s