Frontline Feminisms

by Waller, Marguerite R.; Rycenga, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780815334422
• ISBN10: 0815334427
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	ix
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Introduction	xiii
Acknowledgments	xxix
Illustrations	xxxi
PART I Domestic and Public Violence	1	(82)
Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women	3	(14)
Angela Y. Davis
Screaming in Silence	17	(6)
Shadia el Sarraj
From Reverence to Rape: An Anthropology of Ethnic and Genderized Violence	23	(14)
Vesna Kesic
Laughter, Tears, and Politics-Dialogue: How Women Do It	37	(4)
Vesna Kesic
Lepa Mladjenovic
The Opposite of War Is Not Peace-It Is Creativity	41	(16)
Zorica Mrsevic
Is Violence Male? The Law, Gender, and Violence	57	(18)
Lucinda Joy Peach
Art as a Healing Tool from ``A Window Between Worlds''	75	(8)
Cathy Salser
PART II Gender, Militarism, and Sexuality	83	(124)
Translating/Transgressing/Torture . . .	85	(28)
Irene Matthews
Women and Militarization in Israel: Forgotten Letters in the Midst of Conflict	113	(16)
Isis Nusair
Sudanese Women under Repression, and the Shortest Way to Equality	129	(12)
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim
Who Benefits? U.S. Military, Prostitution, and Base Conversion	141	(18)
Saundra Sturdevant
Demilitarizing Security: Women Oppose U.S. Militarism in East Asia	159	(14)
Gwyn Kirk
Margo Okazawa-Rey
Women's Politics and Organizing in Vietnam and Cambodia	173	(12)
Kathryn McMahon
Women in Command: A Successful Experience in the National Liberation Army of Iran	185	(10)
Sorayya Shahri
Conversion	195	(4)
Habiba Metikos
The Passage	199	(8)
Vinka Ljubimir
PART III Nonviolent, and Not-Nonviolent, action against Patriarchy	207	(134)
The Kitchen Cabinet	209	(4)
Julie Mertus
Ritual as Resistance: Tibetan Women and Nonviolence	213	(22)
Benina Berger Gould
The Impact of Women in Black in Israel	235	(12)
Gila Svirsky
Feminist Resistance to War and Violence in Serbia	247	(28)
Lepa Mladjenovic
Donna M. Hughes
Gender, Nationalism, and the Ambiguity of Female Agency in Aceh, Indonesia, and East Timor	275	(22)
Jacqueline Siapno
Maria Stewart, Black Abolitionist, and the Idea of Freedom	297	(28)
Jennifer Rycenga
January 16, 1997: Message from Maryam Rajavi, President-Elect of the Iranian Resistance	325	(10)
Maryam Rajavi
``You Have a Voice Now, Resistance Is Futile!''	335	(6)
Shashwati Talukdar
PART IV Where Are the Frontlines?	341	(96)
Women's Activism in Rural Kosova	343	(6)
Eli
The Soldier and the State: Post-Liberation Women: The Case of Eritrea	349	(22)
Sondra Hale
Beyond the Baton: How Women's Responses Are Changing Definitions of Police Violence	371	(14)
Nancy Keefe Rhodes
Black Women and Labor Unions in the South: From the 1970s to the 1990s	385	(10)
Ida Leachman
From the Mississippi Delta to South Central Los Angeles	395	(4)
Georgiana Williams
``A Struggle of the Mind'': Black Working-Class Women's Organizing in Memphis and the Mississippi Delta, 1960s to 1990s	399	(20)
Laurie Beth Green
A State of Work: Women, Politics, and Protest on an Indian Tea Plantation	419	(18)
Piya Chatterjee
Contributors	437	(8)
Index	445