Women on War: An International Anthology of Women's Writings from Antiquity to the PresentDaniela Gioseffi 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 first-hand 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 to testimony by Afghan women and poems about the impact of September 11, 2001. In voices that are gripping, mournful, defiant, and often surprisingly hopeful, these writers join to produce a portrait of wartime experience that has too seldom been seen, and a plea for peace that has too seldom been heard. The first edition of Women on War, published in 1988, was hailed as a landmark book and won wide critical acclaim. The New York Times called the anthology "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." This long-awaited new edition, which contains nearly 40 percent new material and includes responses to the conflicts of our own times, is sure to earn a place as a landmark work for the 21st century. |
Contents
PROPHECIES AND WARNINGS | 1 |
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 |
Morning in the Park Among the Nannies | 185 |
From Boys in Zinc | 193 |
The CampsBosnia | 200 |
From The Other Side of Silence | 203 |
From A Girl Soldiers Story | 207 |
The Impact of Genocide on Women | 212 |
The Deliverance of Argos | 217 |
A National Crime | 219 |
Between Men and Women and What If This Week | 12 |
Children of the Epoch | 14 |
The Nightmare Factory | 15 |
From Cassandra | 17 |
The Latest Weapon of War | 20 |
Six Narratives | 23 |
Stockpiling | 24 |
Words Spoken by Pasternak During a Bombing | 27 |
From The New Nuclear Danger | 28 |
Bread | 39 |
The Religion of War | 41 |
Among Tall Buildings | 49 |
The Fifties | 52 |
At Ground Zero in Hiroshima | 53 |
To the Soldiers of El Salvador | 54 |
Intellectuals | 56 |
Bioterror and Biosaftey | 69 |
Crawling from the Wreckage | 70 |
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 |
VIOLENCE AND MOURNING | 99 |
From Song of Pathos and Wrath and Eighteen Verses in Huns Flute Melody | 101 |
Elegy for My Brother | 104 |
From Hospital Sketches | 105 |
The First LongRange Artillery Fire on Leningrad | 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 |
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 |
From Sorrow Mountain | 151 |
Its Not the Fear of Shivering | 157 |
The Bombing of Baghdad | 158 |
Front Maneuvers | 161 |
Dont Speak the Language of the Enemy and The Exotic Enemy | 165 |
From The Price of Freedom | 170 |
From Beyond the Limbo Silence | 173 |
Certain Winds from the South | 175 |
Report from Vietnam for International Womans Day | 181 |
Friend and Foe and To One in Beirut | 182 |
The Blood of Others | 184 |
Women and War | 221 |
Finnish Champion | 223 |
The Women Take a Hand | 224 |
From Verses to Chekia | 228 |
The Drought Breaks | 229 |
Political Activism and Art | 232 |
Kathe Kollwitz | 234 |
The Artists Rebellious Integrity | 238 |
And Still I Rise | 240 |
Memory Says Yes | 241 |
From Sula | 242 |
The Parachutists Wife | 247 |
Nuclear Bomb Testing on Human Guinea Pigs | 249 |
I Am Your Horse in the Night | 252 |
Antigone | 255 |
Blind Unpredictable Terror | 261 |
They Followed Us into the Night | 262 |
Guatamala Your Blood | 263 |
Return | 264 |
An Interview | 267 |
The Bath | 272 |
A Cambodian Childhood | 275 |
Three Poems | 283 |
We Are All Women in Black | 287 |
HOPE AND SURVIVAL | 291 |
To an Army Wife in Sardis | 293 |
Yes to the Earth | 295 |
Free Women Blossoming 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 |
A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered | 307 |
The Future | 309 |
The Spoils of War | 313 |
Letter from Ground Zero | 315 |
A Forgiving Land | 321 |
My Sons Childhood | 324 |
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 | 347 |
Tough Love | 350 |
Select Bibliography | 357 |
Sources and Permission CreditsAuthor Index | 365 |
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