After Shock September 11, 2001: Global Feminist Perspectives

by Hawthorn, Susan; Winter, Bronwyn

• ISBN13: 9781551926575
• ISBN10: 1551926571
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-08
• Publisher: Raincoast Books

Summary

In the tidal wave of commentary following 9/11, feminist perspectives were nobody missing. This book addresses that uncover the connections between war, terrorism, fundamentalism, racism, global capitalism, and male violence. Including immediate reactions essays, speeches, letters to the U.N. and to George Bush, emails, and poetry.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
Reactions
Whose Terrorism? 12 September to 7 October
Log of Impacts: As It Happened	p. 27
New York City: The Day After	p. 32
Afghani Women's Resistance Organization: Bin Laden Is Not Afghanistan	p. 37
Non-Selective Compassion	p. 39
Candlelight Vigil for Restraint and Peace	p. 41
Rancid Social Soup	p. 43
Week One: Ghosts and Echoes	p. 45
Women's Voices Silenced in the Enthusiasm for War	p. 51
Statement on Attacks in the USA	p. 54
Terrorism, Globalisation, Bio/diversity, Survival: A Feminist Perspective	p. 56
A Pure, High Note of Anguish	p. 61
Why I Voted against War	p. 64
A Pentagon Widow Pleads for Non-violence	p. 66
I Too Am a Muslim, a Hindu, an Arab	p. 68
Resistance is Creative: False Options and Real Hope	p. 69
So the Party Is Over? The Global Justice Movement after September 11	p. 74
The Price of Life	p. 79
Statement	p. 82
Transnational Feminist Practices Against War	p. 85
It's Bloodthirsty Vengeance	p. 91
"Fatima" Speaks: Resisting the Taliban	p. 97
Justice, Not Revenge; Peace, Not War; Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Not Fascism	p. 103
Another Feminist Response to the Terrorist Attacks	p. 105
A World Where Justice Brings Peace	p. 108
Reflections on "Infinite Justice"	p. 110
Whose War? 8 October to 13 November
First Writing Since	p. 115
Statement on the US Strikes on Afghanistan	p. 121
Women Oppose War	p. 124
Un Pave dans la mare, or Rocking the Boat: September 11 Viewed from France	p. 128
Letter to President George W. Bush	p. 132
No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak	p. 134
Statement	p. 137
A War ... by Men	p. 139
Letter to Kofi Annan	p. 142
Telling It Like It Isn't	p. 145
What Does Feminism Have to Say?	p. 149
Life of Afghan Refugee Women	p. 156
Globalisation and Talibanisation	p. 158
Testimony Before the Subcommittee of the US House on International Operations and Human Rights	p. 161
Weekday Warriors	p. 165
Behind the Veil of Oppression	p. 168
Before the Bombs: My Beautiful Afghanistan	p. 172
Urgent Action Alert: Include Afghan Women in Transition Processes	p. 175
Is This a Feminist War?	p. 177
A Call on Feminists to Protest the War Against Afghanistan	p. 180
International Law and the Terrorist Attacks on the USA	p. 186
Women Oppose War	p. 188
Appeal to the UN and World Community	p. 193
Women's Networks: Islamists' Violence and Terror	p. 195
Whose Peace? 14 November to 8 March
Self Evident	p. 201
Demanding to Be Heard	p. 207
What Do You Do When You Are Fed up with Men's Mismanagement of Our Planet Earth and Their Wars?	p. 210
Women in War	p. 212
Interview with Mary Robinson	p. 214
Call for Action	p. 217
The Fundamental Mystery of Repressing Women	p. 220
The Brussels Proclamation	p. 224
Forever Victims	p. 229
Declaration on the Occasion of the International Human Rights Day	p. 232
By Any Standard, This Is a War Against Afghans	p. 237
Buying a Gladiatorial Myth	p. 244
Peace Is the Only Option	p. 246
Statement following US President Bush's Hard-line Rhetoric directed at North Korea	p. 249
Letter to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition	p. 252
Better the Devil You Know?	p. 254
Declaration on the Occasion of International Women's Day 2002	p. 256
Afghan Women's Consultation Concludes Today in Kabul	p. 257
Persevere in the Struggle against US Reoccupation of the Philippine	p. 259
Let Us Struggle Against War and Fundamentalism and for Peace and democracy!	p. 261
Reflections
Dislocations	p. 275
Masculinity as a Foreign Policy Issue	p. 284
Women, the Taliban, and the Politics of Public Space in Afghanistan	p. 290
Afghanistan, Central Asia, Georgia: Key to Oil Profits	p. 316
Huntington's "Clash of Civilisations" Thesis and Population Control	p. 328
A War for Afghan Women?	p. 333
Phantom Towers: Feminist Reflections on the Battle between Global Capital and Fundamentalist Terrorism	p. 348
The Algebra of Infinite Justice	p. 364
Fundamentalism, Violence and Disconnection	p. 373
Who Will Mourn on October 7?	p. 395
Eurocentrism, Orientalism and Essentialism: Some Reflections on September 11 and Beyond	p. 408
Feminist Snapshots from the Edge: Reflections on Women, War and Peace Activism in Israel after September 11	p. 430
The Phallus of September 11	p. 451
State of Emergency	p. 467
Good and Evil: At Home and Abroad	p. 474
If Women Really Mattered	p. 493
Glossary	p. 527
Abbreviations	p. 529
Contributors	p. 531
Permissions	p. 547
Acknowledgements	p. 553
About the Editors	p. 557
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