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Women on war: an international anthology of women's writings from antiquity to the present
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Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Publication Date
2003
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English
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From the Book - 2nd ed.
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.
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