Terror, Counter-Terror : Women Speak Out

by Edited by Ammu Joseph and Kalpana Sharma

• ISBN13: 9781842773536
• ISBN10: 1842773534
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-09-06
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

Women across the world have spoken out against terrorism, militarism and violence of all kinds as an unacceptable strategy for resolving differences and conflict. This anthology, ranging over the last decade, is a powerful statement by them against all terrorism and any violent means used to deal with. With contributions by: Susan Sontag, Anisa Darwish, Rohini Hensman, Barbara Kingsolver, and many others.

Author Biography

Ammu Joseph is a journalist and media-watcher based in Bangalore, India, with a special interest in issues relating to gender, children, human development, justice and peace.

Kalpana Sharma is Deputy Editor of The Hindu newspaper.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note	ix
Introduction	xi
SECTION 1-PERSONAL/POLITICAL
First writing since	2	(7)
Suheir Hammad
Ghost and echoes	9	(8)
Robin Morgan
War: violation of human life	17	(5)
Neto fer Pazira
SECTION 2-THE WAR ON TERROR?
The only alternative to global terror	22	(20)
Rohini Hensman
Ter-reign of terror	42	(10)
Rubing Saigol
Phantom towers feminist reflections on the battle between global capitalism and fundamental terrorism	52	(17)
Rosalind P. Petchesky
Terrorism, globalization, bio/diversity, survival: a feminist perspective	69	(5)
Susan Hawthorne
Bioterror and biosafety	74	(3)
Vandana Shiva
Veiled threat	77	(4)
Barbara Ehrenreich
The hidden cost of war	81	(9)
Suchita Vemuri
SECTION 3-SAYING NO
War frenzy	90	(10)
Sunera Thobani
'The traitor' fires back	100	(11)
Susan Sontag
Intolerance of debate	111	(4)
Madeleine Buntin
World without colours	115	(3)
Kalpana Sharma
My home is not the place you see on TV	118	(4)
Kamila Shamsie
SECTION 4-MOTHERLAND/FATHERLAND
Can patriotism be compassionate?	122	(6)
Martha Nussbaum
Bringing the holy war home	128	(6)
Ellen Willis
And our flag was still there	134	(4)
Barbara Kingsolver
A twisted sense of duty and love	138	(4)
Barbara Ehrenreich & Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks
Because we're just boys (from The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays)	142	(10)
Dubravka Ugrešic
SECTION 5-THE WAR ON WOMEN
Freedom, fashion and an assault on the burga	152	(3)
Humera Khan
Women in war	155	(3)
Gayle Forman
Is the US fighting for women's liberation?	158	(4)
Elizabeth Schulte
Song of war	162	(7)
Ayesha Khan
Jehadi and Taliban are both responsible for the human rights disaster	169	(4)
Fahima Akhtar
The politics of gender in the politics of hate	173	(11)
Anuradha M. Chenoy
SECTION 6-DISPLACED/DISPOSSESSED
Spirit of place	184	(28)
Sonia Jabbar
Missing in action (from Drinking the Sea at Gaza: days and nights in a land under siege)	212	(15)
Amira Hass
From Tinatol Waja (Diary of the Al-Agsa Intifada)	227	(8)
Anisa Darwish
Letter to Hala	235	(3)
Anisa Darwish
Lena doesn't live here anymore	238	(6)
Gila Svirsky
SECTION 7-WOMEN AGAINST WAR
Women in Black	244	(2)
Barbara Lee	246	(2)
Violence Against Women in War Network, Japan	248	(4)
Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)	252	(3)
Rigoberta Menchu	255	(3)
Diverse Women for Diversity	258	(3)
Bat Shalom	261	(3)
National Coalition of 100 Black Women	264	(2)
Transnational Feminists	266	(7)
Twelve points	273	(5)
Delhi Women's Petition	278	(6)
Worldwide Sisterhood Against Terrorism and War	284