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Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings from Antiquity to the Present Paperback – March 1, 2003
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Women on War gathers together writings by more than 150 women, including renowned poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, and activists, as well as ordinary women with firsthand experience of armed conflict as survivors, refugees, rape victims, nurses, and soldiers. Spanning the globe and traversing more than two centuries, the pieces in this compelling collection range from an ancient verse by Sappho about a wife who awaits the return of her warrior husband to an essay by Arundhati Roy about the impact of September 11. In voices that are gripping, mournful, defiant, and often surprisingly hopeful, these writers join to produce a portrait of wartime experience and a plea for peace.
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThe Feminist Press at CUNY
- Publication dateMarch 1, 2003
- Dimensions6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
- ISBN-101558614095
- ISBN-13978-1558614093
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"The first edition of this anthology, published in 1988, was subtitled Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age and won an American Book Award. This second edition is certainly well timed. While it still addresses issues of the nuclear age and the further past it seems to speak directly to today's conflicts. Ranging widely in time and place, the over 150 women featured here (e.g., Anna Akhmatova, Marguerite Duras, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Emily Dickinson) include professional writers in several areas as well as activists (such as members of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of Women) and 'ordinary' women. Well-known names such as Indian writer Arundhati Roy might jump out, but readers may be most affected by some of the first-person accounts which can, however, be difficult to readboth for their graphic descriptions and for their sheer heartrending poignancy. Editor Gioseffi's introduction nicely contextualizes the wide-range contributions." Library Journal
"An eloquent response to global violence [which] sweeps with authority through time and across national boundaries. . . . This is one book one hopes will be translated into all of humankind's languages." New York Times Book Review
"In Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings from Antiquity to the Present, Daniela Gioseffi, an award-winning poet and activist, has assembled a diverse collection of powerful poems, essays, eyewitness accounts, and inquiries that valiantly and penetratingly question the premise of war and argue for its elimination from the repertoire of human behavior." Speakeasy Magazine
"In many ways the book is an antidote to the dark, supermacho world in which we are living. It pulses with defiance, hope, and celebration." Tikkun
"As long as our species has made war, individuals have spoken out against it, and women are prominent among those who argue cogently and eloquently for peace. Now that weapons of mass destruction have made war a truly apocalyptic prospect, the call for nonviolent resolutions to world conflicts is all the more urgent, and the voices in this powerful and important collection (an extensively revised and updated version of an earlier volume) are all the more precious. Gioseffi, a prize-winning poet, activist, and educator, sets the scene for this invaluable anthology in a bracing introduction that traces the enormous shadow militarism casts across our planet and our lives, from the immediate tragedies of war to the environmental damage caused by military industries and the poverty exacerbated by huge military expenditures. The poems, essays, eyewitness accounts, and probing inquiries that follow are dramatic and knowledgeable, forthright and reasonable, full of compassion and accepting of responsibility, a diverse and inspiring gathering of writers of conscience including Jane Addams, Martha Gellhorn, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Arundhati Roy, Grace Paley, Claribel Alegria, Toni Morrison, Helen Caldicott, and dozens more who courageously question the necessity and protest the insanity of global violence." ―Booklist
"The first edition of this anthology, published in 1988, was subtitled Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age and won an American Book Award. This second edition is certainly well timed. While it still addresses issues of the nuclear age and the further past it seems to speak directly to today's conflicts. Ranging widely in time and place, the over 150 women featured here (e.g., Anna Akhmatova, Marguerite Duras, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Emily Dickinson) include professional writers in several areas as well as activists (such as members of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of Women) and 'ordinary' women. Well-known names such as Indian writer Arundhati Roy might jump out, but readers may be most affected by some of the first-person accounts which can, however, be difficult to read―both for their graphic descriptions and for their sheer heartrending poignancy. Editor Gioseffi's introduction nicely contextualizes the wide-range contributions." ―Library Journal
"An eloquent response to global violence [which] sweeps with authority through time and across national boundaries. . . . This is one book one hopes will be translated into all of humankind's languages." ―New York Times Book Review
"In Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings from Antiquity to the Present, Daniela Gioseffi, an award-winning poet and activist, has assembled a diverse collection of powerful poems, essays, eyewitness accounts, and inquiries that valiantly and penetratingly question the premise of war and argue for its elimination from the repertoire of human behavior." ―Speakeasy Magazine
"In many ways the book is an antidote to the dark, supermacho world in which we are living. It pulses with defiance, hope, and celebration." ―Tikkun
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- Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY; 2nd edition (March 1, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1558614095
- ISBN-13 : 978-1558614093
- Item Weight : 1.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,743,237 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #741 in War & Peace (Books)
- #2,326 in Violence in Society (Books)
- #5,240 in Women in History
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Daniela Gioseffi, is an American Book Award winning author of 17 books of poetry and prose. She's presented her poetry for NPR and the BBC and appeared twice on the Poet & The Poem radio show of The Library of Congress, N.E.A. Her verse is etched in marble on a wall of PENN Station NY with that of Walt Whitman. She's won the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, and the OSIA NY State Literary Award. Her 7th volume of poetry, Waging Beauty as the Polar Bear Dreams of Ice, is well reviewed by several verified buyers at Amazon, http://amzn.to/2q0I89H. Her 6th volume, Blood Autumn, Autunno di sangue, VIA Folios, Bordighera Press, CUNY, 2007, is also well reviewed here at Amazon. She founded the National Bordighera Poetry Prize. Currently Daniela edits Eco-Poetry.org which features accomplished poets of the world and USA with inspiring environmental literature, news and alerts on climate crisis, now a dire emergency. Some of her video-poems are linked on her page at Eco-Poetry.org. She has also edited ItalianAmericanWriters.com/ and was a pioneer of The Poets-in-the-Schools program of the NY State Council for the Arts, winning a Partner in Education Award from the NY City Dept. of Ed. She created the First Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk in 1971 with a grant from The NY State Council for the Arts from which she received two grants in poetry. Daniela has published three novels, the latest a biographical one on the life of Emily Dickinson with a non-fiction forward upon which the novel is based, titled The Story of Emily Dickinson's Master; Wild Nights! Wild Night!, now available as an e-books at Amazon. It was well reviewed in The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. She is with the Dickinson's Scholars Registry and has taught a colleges and universities all around the NY City area where she has lived for 50 years, including NYU, Brooklyn College, Pace U., LIU and The School of Visual Arts, English Depts. Her first book of poetry Eggs in he Lake, BOA Editions, 1977, was followed by six others, the sixth being Blood Autumn: New & Selected Poems, 2007, VIA Folios at The City U. of NY and Waging Beauty...2017, Poets Wear Prada Press, mentioned above. Women On War: International Writings (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1988, & The Feminist Press: NY, 2003), and On Prejudice: A Global Perspective (Anchor/ Doubleday, 1993) are two of her major books. She's won grant awards in poetry from the NY State Council for the Arts and several other awards. Daniela is widely published in literary periodicals e.g. The Paris Review, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East & in many major press anthologies, e.g. Kaleidoscope: Stories of the American Experience (Oxford U. Press.) She's won a PEN Short Fiction Award for her story, "Daffodil Dollars" which appeared on N.P.R.'s The Sound of Words hosted by Alan Cheuse. Her last teaching was in the Humanities Dept. of The School of Visual Arts. She was a pioneer for Poets-in-the-Schools, Inc. of the NY State Council for the Arts when young. You can find more information and photos at http://www.AuthorandActivist.com/ A documentary by that title previewed in 2014 at the Maya Daren Theatre in Manhattan and is screening on college campuses and in libraries around the country. It is based on Daniela's life in literature and activism in Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Anti-War and Climate Justice Activism. More info. at www.DanielaGioseffi.com/ The Daniela Gioseffi Papers and Books are preserved at The Beinceke Library of American Literature at Yale University. Her books are also seen online at City University Library System of New York and all are available on Amazon.com Daniela Gioseffi has read her work and given talks and interviews on campuses and radio and television stations around the country and Europe. She is referenced in many thousands of sites on the internet and can be founding reading and talking on video-poems and interviews and readings on Youtube where The Daniela Gioseffi channel also exists. There are clips from Author and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi Story available on Youtube, as well. All of Daniela Gioseffi's books are available here at Amazon.com/ Video-Poems of her reading her work are here on her Author Page at Amazon. www.DanielaGioseffi.com contains more info. and poems.
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One of the great merits of Daniela Gioseffi's multi-merited "Women on War" is its documentation of the other side. In our obsession with battlefield glory and stories of combat heroics, we too often forget that women and children are the forgotten victims of war. Already extremely vulnerable, they become even more so when societies are ripped asunder by the mayhem of armed conflict. In listening to their voices, we are reminded that the allure of war too frequently blinds us to what it does to those who can least afford its violence.
Gioseffi's book collects women's perspectives on war from all corners of the globe and from ancient to contemporary times. The book is divided into four thematic sections: "Prophecies and Warnings," "Violence and Mourning," "Courage and Resistance," and "Hope and Survival." The entire collection is prefaced with a superb introductory essay, "Cassandra's Daughters." As suggested by the thematic section titles, the selections go beyond expressing the suffering and torment experienced by women in wartime. Just as importantly, the selections also include women's voices of resistance and women's voices that offer alternatives to the madness of war. Some of the selections are heart-breaking, others are inspiring, none are superfluous or redundant. if war in part arises, as Hedges maintains, because of our alienated need for meaning, one solution to the problem of war is to figure out how to live nonalienated existences. The selections in this collection, especially in the final two sections, offer either direct or indirect suggestions for celebrating rather than destroying life. One of my favorites is the "I Have All the Passion of Life" by Puerto Rican poet Lolita Lebron:
"...Whoever denies life its joy,
the wealth of its complexity,
its rainbow-like countenance,
its downpour and its universe
of beauty, its generous giving,
the caress, the grain
with fruit and delicacies,
the bud, the flower, pain and
laughter;
those who deny life its measure
of joy
are the unseeing ones." (p. 300)
In short, a superb resource for anyone concerned about creating an alternative to the war system. Highly recommended for both individual and group reading. Would be an ideal text in any peace studies course.