Women on war: an international anthology of women's writings from antiquity to the present

Introduction: Cassandra's Daughters

Pt. 1. Prophecies and Warnings

Lament to the Spirit Of War / Enheduanna

Patriotism as a "Menace to liberty" / Emma Goldman

Militarism as a Province of Accumulation / Rosa Luxemburg

O Earth, Unhappy Planet Born to Die / Edna St. Vincent Millay

From The Face of War / Martha Gellhorn

Progress / Gwendolyn Brooks

Declaration of Love / Carilda Oliver Labra

Is There a Difference Between Men and Women and What If (This Week) / Grace Paley

Children of the Epoch / Wislawa Szymborska

Nightmare Factory / Maxine Kumin

From Cassandra / Christa Wolf

From Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War / Rosalie Bertell

From Dark Fields of the Republic: Six Narratives / Adrienne Rich

Stockpiling / Jayne Cortez

Words Spoken by Pasternak During a Bombing / Bella Akhmadulina

From The New Nuclear Danger / Helen Caldicott

Bread / Margaret Atwood

From Blood Rites: The Religion of War / Barbara Ehrenreich

Among Tall Buildings / Molly Peacock

Borders / Rochelle Ratner

Fifties / Wendy Rose

At Ground Zero in Hiroshima / Ann Druyan

To the Soldiers of El Salvador / Lilliam Jimenez

Sex and Death and the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals / Carol Cohn

Bioterror and Biosafety / Vandana Shiva

From Misogynies: Crawling from the Wreckage / Joan Smith

Women and Conflict: A Serbian Perspective / Jasmina Tesanovic

Pure, High Note of Anguish / Barbara Kingsolver

Why Missile Defense Will Not Make Us Safer / Theresa Hitchens

Algebra of Infinite Justice / Arundhati Roy

Pt. 2. Violence and Mourning

From Song of pathos and Wrath and Eighteen Verses in Hun's Flute Melody / Tsai Wen-Ji

Elegy for My Brother / al-Khansa

War of 1793 / Diodata Saluzzo

From Hospital Sketches / Louisa May Alcott

First Long Range Artillery Fire on Leningrad / Anna Akhmatova

From Not So Quiet ... / Helen Zenna Smith

From All Said and Done / Simone de Beauvoir

From The War / Marguerite Duras

Son of Man / Natalia Ginzburg

Face Lost in the Wilderness / Fadwa Tuqan

From The Wind Blows Away Our Words / Doris Lessing

Death in Slow Motion / Andree Chedid

Star Obscure / Gueni Zaimof

War / Vesna Parun

From Camp Notes / Mitsuye Yamada

Evasion / Claribel Alegria

Eyes of an Afghan Child / Nguyet Tu

Hellish Years After Hellish Days / Toyomi Hashimoto

Viet Minh and Famine / Tra Thi Nga and Wendy Wilder Larsen

From Comfort Woman / Maria Rosa Henson

Songs of Bread and An Armenian Looking at Newsphotos of the Cambodian Deathwatch / Diana Der-Hovanessian

Enemy Army Has Passed Through / Jaya Mehta

Colonization of Our Pacific Islands / Chailang Palacios

From Sorrow Mountain / Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelley

It's Not the Fear of Shivering / Gulten Akin

Hatred / Maire Mhac an tSaoi

Bombing of Baghdad / June Jordan

From Maneuvers / Cynthia Enloe

"Don't Speak the Language of the Enemy!" and The Exotic Enemy / Daniela Gioseffi

From The Price of Freedom / Ellen Ndeshi Namhila

From Beyond the Limbo Silences / Elizabeth Nunez

Certain Winds from the South / Ama Ata Aidoo

Report from Vietnam for International Women's Day / Minerva Salado

"The Situation in Soweto Is Not Abnormal" / Mavis Smallberg

Friend and Foe and To One in Beirut / Karen Alkalay-Gut

Blood of Others / Gioconda Belli

Morning in the Park Among the Nannies / Savyon Liebrecht

From Boys in Zinc / Svetlana Alexiyevich

From S.: The Camps - Bosnia / Slavenka Drakulic

From The Other Side of Silence / Urvashi Butalia

From A Girl Soldier's Story / Marevasei Kachere

Impact of Genocide on Women / Jean Kadalika Uwankunda

Pt. 3. Courage and Resistance

Deliverance of Argos / Adelaide-Gillette Dufresnoy

National Crime / Ida Wells-Barnett

From Women and Labour: Women and War / Olive Schreiner

Finnish Champion / Gabriela Mistral

Women Take a Hand / Agnes Smedley

Verses To Chekia / Marina Tsvetayeva

Drought Breaks / Sylvia Townsend Warner

Political Activism and Art / Lenore Marshall

Kathe Kollwitz / Muriel Rukeyser

Artist's Rebellious Integrity / Nadine Gordimer

And Still I Rise / Maya Angelou

Memory Says Yes / Margaret Randall

From Sula / Toni Morrison

Parachutist's Wife / Sandra M. Gilbert

Nuclear Bomb Testing on Human Guinea Pigs / Darlene Keju-Johnson

I Am Your Horse in the Night / Luisa Valenzuela

Antigone / Ileana Malancioiu

From The House of the Spirits: The Hour of Truth / Isabel Allende

Blind, Unpredictable Terror / Ruth Rosen

They Followed Us into the Night / Michele Najlis

Guatemala, Your Blood / Alenka Bermudez

Return / Carolyn Forche

If Someone Else Is Suffering / Hannah Safran and Donna Spiegelman

Bath / Kimiko Hahn

From The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood / Molyda Szymusiak

I'll Never Return / Meena

Meena / Reza Farmand

For the Women of Afghanistan / Sheema Kalbasi

We Are All Women in Black / Women in Black of Belgrade

Pt. 4. Hope and Survival

To an Army Wife in Sardis / Sappho

From Peace and Bread in Time of War / Jane Addams

Yes to the Earth / Sibilla Alermo

Free Women Blooming from Old Battlefields / Ch'iu Chin

In Defense of the United Nations / Eleanor Roosevelt

I Have All the Passion of Life / Lolita Lebron

Women Know a Lot of Things / Meridel Le Sueur

Making Peace and What It Could Be / Denise Levertov

On a Japanese Beach / Nina Cassian

From Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered / Ruth Kluger

Future / Daisy al-Amir

Spoils of War / Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Ghosts and Echoes: Letter from Ground Zero / Robin Morgan

Forgiving Land / Lady Borton

My Son's Childhood / Xuan Quynh

Holding the Line at Greenham Common: On Being Joyously Political in Dangerous Times / Ann Snitow

Only Justice Can Stop a Curse / Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston

Black Woman / Nancy Morejon

Letter to an Iraqi Woman / Mairead Corrigan Maguire

Women and Ecology / Petra Kelly

Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980 / Linda Hogan

New Dawn in Town / Flora Brovina

Song of Hope and When We Go Home Again / Daisy Zamora

Time of Cannons Comes Flying / Ana Istaru

Tough Love / Michelle Chihara.