Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings from Antiquity to the Present
From Margaret Atwood to Daisy Zamora, Simone de Beauvoir to Virginia Woolf, many of the world's greatest women writers have reflected upon one of humanity's most tragic and powerful experiences: war. Yet most of these writings are little known, just as women's perceptions of war remain largely absent from the history books.\ 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...
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A timely collection by a brilliant assemblage of writers reveals women's unique perspectives on war.
Dedication and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cassandra's DaughtersPt. 1Prophecies and WarningsLament to the Spirit Of War3Patriotism as a "Menace to liberty"4Militarism as a Province of Accumulation5O Earth, Unhappy Planet Born to Die6From The Face of War7The Progress10Declaration of Love11Is There a Difference Between Men and Women and What If (This Week)12Children of the Epoch14The Nightmare Factory15From Cassandra17From Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War20From Dark Fields of the Republic: Six Narratives23Stockpiling24Words Spoken by Pasternak During a Bombing27From The New Nuclear Danger28Bread39From Blood Rites: The Religion of War41Among Tall Buildings49Borders49The Fifties52At Ground Zero in Hiroshima53To the Soldiers of El Salvador54Sex and Death and the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals56Bioterror and Biosafety69From Misogynies: Crawling from the Wreckage70Women and Conflict: A Serbian Perspective80A Pure, High Note of Anguish86Why Missile Defense Will Not Make Us Safer88The Algebra of Infinite Justice90Pt. 2Violence and MourningFrom Song of pathos and Wrath and Eighteen Verses in Hun's Flute Melody101Elegy for My Brother104The War of 1793104From Hospital Sketches105The First Long Range Artillery Fire on Leningrad107From Not So Quiet ...107From All Said and Done111From The War115The Son of Man116Face Lost in the Wilderness118From The Wind Blows Away Our Words120Death in Slow Motion127The Star Obscure131The War131From Camp Notes133Evasion135Eyes of an Afghan Child136Hellish Years After Hellish Days137Viet Minh and Famine142From Comfort Woman144Songs of Bread and An Armenian Looking at Newsphotos of the Cambodian Deathwatch147The Enemy Army Has Passed Through149The Colonization of Our Pacific Islands149From Sorrow Mountain151It's Not the Fear of Shivering157Hatred157The Bombing of Baghdad158From Maneuvers161"Don't Speak the Language of the Enemy!" and The Exotic Enemy165From The Price of Freedom170From Beyond the Limbo Silences173Certain Winds from the South175Report from Vietnam for International Women's Day181"The Situation in Soweto Is Not Abnormal"181Friend and Foe and To One in Beirut182The Blood of Others184Morning in the Park Among the Nannies185From Boys in Zinc193From S.: The Camps - Bosnia200From The Other Side of Silence203From A Girl Soldier's Story207The Impact of Genocide on Women212Pt. 3Courage and ResistanceThe Deliverance of Argos217A National Crime219From Women and Labour: Women and War221Finnish Champion223The Women Take a Hand224Verses To Chekia228The Drought Breaks229Political Activism and Art232Kathe Kollwitz234The Artist's Rebellious Integrity238And Still I Rise240Memory Says Yes241From Sula242The Parachutist's Wife247Nuclear Bomb Testing on Human Guinea Pigs249I Am Your Horse in the Night252Antigone255From The House of the Spirits: The Hour of Truth255Blind, Unpredictable Terror261They Followed Us into the Night262Guatemala, Your Blood263Return264If Someone Else Is Suffering267The Bath272From The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood275I'll Never Return283Meena283For the Women of Afghanistan283We Are All Women in Black287Pt. 4Hope and SurvivalTo an Army Wife in Sardis293From Peace and Bread in Time of War293Yes to the Earth295Free Women Blooming from Old Battlefields296In Defense of the United Nations297I Have All the Passion of Life299Women Know a Lot of Things301Making Peace and What It Could Be304On a Japanese Beach306From Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered307The Future309The Spoils of War313Ghosts and Echoes: Letter from Ground Zero315A Forgiving Land321My Son's Childhood324Holding the Line at Greenham Common: On Being Joyously Political in Dangerous Times325Only Justice Can Stop a Curse333Black Woman336Letter to an Iraqi Woman337Women and Ecology340Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980344A New Dawn in Town346Song of Hope and When We Go Home Again346A Time of Cannons Comes Flying347Tough Love350Select Bibliography357Sources and permission Credits/Author Index365Subject/Geographic Index373
