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Authors: Daniella Gioseffi
ISBN-13: 9781558614093, ISBN-10: 1558614095
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY, The
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: 2nd Edition
A timely collection by a brilliant assemblage of writers reveals women's unique perspectives on war.
Dedication and Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: Cassandra's Daughters | ||
Pt. 1 | Prophecies and Warnings | |
Lament to the Spirit Of War | 3 | |
Patriotism as a "Menace to liberty" | 4 | |
Militarism as a Province of Accumulation | 5 | |
O Earth, Unhappy Planet Born to Die | 6 | |
From The Face of War | 7 | |
The Progress | 10 | |
Declaration of Love | 11 | |
Is There a Difference Between Men and Women and What If (This Week) | 12 | |
Children of the Epoch | 14 | |
The Nightmare Factory | 15 | |
From Cassandra | 17 | |
From Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War | 20 | |
From Dark Fields of the Republic: Six Narratives | 23 | |
Stockpiling | 24 | |
Words Spoken by Pasternak During a Bombing | 27 | |
From The New Nuclear Danger | 28 | |
Bread | 39 | |
From Blood Rites: The Religion of War | 41 | |
Among Tall Buildings | 49 | |
Borders | 49 | |
The Fifties | 52 | |
At Ground Zero in Hiroshima | 53 | |
To the Soldiers of El Salvador | 54 | |
Sex and Death and the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals | 56 | |
Bioterror and Biosafety | 69 | |
From Misogynies: Crawling from the Wreckage | 70 | |
Women and Conflict: A Serbian Perspective | 80 | |
A Pure, High Note of Anguish | 86 | |
Why Missile Defense Will Not Make Us Safer | 88 | |
The Algebra of Infinite Justice | 90 | |
Pt. 2 | Violence and Mourning | |
From Song of pathos and Wrath and Eighteen Verses in Hun's Flute Melody | 101 | |
Elegy for My Brother | 104 | |
The War of 1793 | 104 | |
From Hospital Sketches | 105 | |
The First Long Range Artillery Fire on Leningrad | 107 | |
From Not So Quiet ... | 107 | |
From All Said and Done | 111 | |
From The War | 115 | |
The Son of Man | 116 | |
Face Lost in the Wilderness | 118 | |
From The Wind Blows Away Our Words | 120 | |
Death in Slow Motion | 127 | |
The Star Obscure | 131 | |
The War | 131 | |
From Camp Notes | 133 | |
Evasion | 135 | |
Eyes of an Afghan Child | 136 | |
Hellish Years After Hellish Days | 137 | |
Viet Minh and Famine | 142 | |
From Comfort Woman | 144 | |
Songs of Bread and An Armenian Looking at Newsphotos of the Cambodian Deathwatch | 147 | |
The Enemy Army Has Passed Through | 149 | |
The Colonization of Our Pacific Islands | 149 | |
From Sorrow Mountain | 151 | |
It's Not the Fear of Shivering | 157 | |
Hatred | 157 | |
The Bombing of Baghdad | 158 | |
From Maneuvers | 161 | |
"Don't Speak the Language of the Enemy!" and The Exotic Enemy | 165 | |
From The Price of Freedom | 170 | |
From Beyond the Limbo Silences | 173 | |
Certain Winds from the South | 175 | |
Report from Vietnam for International Women's Day | 181 | |
"The Situation in Soweto Is Not Abnormal" | 181 | |
Friend and Foe and To One in Beirut | 182 | |
The Blood of Others | 184 | |
Morning in the Park Among the Nannies | 185 | |
From Boys in Zinc | 193 | |
From S.: The Camps - Bosnia | 200 | |
From The Other Side of Silence | 203 | |
From A Girl Soldier's Story | 207 | |
The Impact of Genocide on Women | 212 | |
Pt. 3 | Courage and Resistance | |
The Deliverance of Argos | 217 | |
A National Crime | 219 | |
From Women and Labour: Women and War | 221 | |
Finnish Champion | 223 | |
The Women Take a Hand | 224 | |
Verses To Chekia | 228 | |
The Drought Breaks | 229 | |
Political Activism and Art | 232 | |
Kathe Kollwitz | 234 | |
The Artist's Rebellious Integrity | 238 | |
And Still I Rise | 240 | |
Memory Says Yes | 241 | |
From Sula | 242 | |
The Parachutist's Wife | 247 | |
Nuclear Bomb Testing on Human Guinea Pigs | 249 | |
I Am Your Horse in the Night | 252 | |
Antigone | 255 | |
From The House of the Spirits: The Hour of Truth | 255 | |
Blind, Unpredictable Terror | 261 | |
They Followed Us into the Night | 262 | |
Guatemala, Your Blood | 263 | |
Return | 264 | |
If Someone Else Is Suffering | 267 | |
The Bath | 272 | |
From The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood | 275 | |
I'll Never Return | 283 | |
Meena | 283 | |
For the Women of Afghanistan | 283 | |
We Are All Women in Black | 287 | |
Pt. 4 | Hope and Survival | |
To an Army Wife in Sardis | 293 | |
From Peace and Bread in Time of War | 293 | |
Yes to the Earth | 295 | |
Free Women Blooming from Old Battlefields | 296 | |
In Defense of the United Nations | 297 | |
I Have All the Passion of Life | 299 | |
Women Know a Lot of Things | 301 | |
Making Peace and What It Could Be | 304 | |
On a Japanese Beach | 306 | |
From Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered | 307 | |
The Future | 309 | |
The Spoils of War | 313 | |
Ghosts and Echoes: Letter from Ground Zero | 315 | |
A Forgiving Land | 321 | |
My Son's Childhood | 324 | |
Holding the Line at Greenham Common: On Being Joyously Political in Dangerous Times | 325 | |
Only Justice Can Stop a Curse | 333 | |
Black Woman | 336 | |
Letter to an Iraqi Woman | 337 | |
Women and Ecology | 340 | |
Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980 | 344 | |
A New Dawn in Town | 346 | |
Song of Hope and When We Go Home Again | 346 | |
A Time of Cannons Comes Flying | 347 | |
Tough Love | 350 | |
Select Bibliography | 357 | |
Sources and permission Credits/Author Index | 365 | |
Subject/Geographic Index | 373 |