September 11, 2001 Feminist Perspectives

by Hawthorne, Susan; Winter, Bronwyn

• ISBN13: 9781876756277
• ISBN10: 1876756276
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Spinifex Press

Summary

Exploring international feminist perspectives of September 11, this collection brings together women who discuss the connections between war, terrorism, fundamentalism, racism, global capitalism, and male violence. Breaking throughthe silence of women's voices, giving immediate reactions and reflective essays on the events of that day, this anthology provides insight into issues such as western involvement in the Arab world, the language used to justify military intervention, the roots of terrorism, the ongoing situation in the Middle East, and the plight of women, children, and all civilians throughout the world as a result of western foreign policy. Contributors include Ani DiFranco, Barbara Ehrenreich, Eve Ensler, Barbara Kingsolver, Arundhati Roy, the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan, and many more.

Author Biography

Susan Hawthorne is a political scientist, activist, research associate, and author of Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalization and Bio/diversity. She has written for numerous academic journals, including Journal of Hate Studies, Journal of International Women's Studies, NWSA Journal, Signs, and Women's Studies International Forum, among others. Bronwyn Winter is a senior lecturer in the department of French studies at the University of Sydney.

 

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Glossary	xiv
Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	xvii
Bronwyn Winter
Susan Hawthorne
PART ONE: REACTIONS
Whose Terrorism? 12 September to 7 October
Log of Impacts: As It Happened	5	(4)
Patricia Sykes
New York City: The Day After	9	(7)
Robin Morgan
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Afghani Women's Resistance Organization: Bin Laden Is Not Afghanistan	14
Non-Selective Compassion	16	(1)
Kathleen Barry
Delhi Women's Petition Candlelight Vigil for Restraint and Peace	17	(2)
Rancid Social Soup	19	(2)
Susanne Martain
Week One: Ghosts and Echoes	21	(5)
Robin Morgan
Women's Voices Silenced in the Enthusiasm for War	26	(2)
Madeleine Bunting
Women Living Under Muslim Laws Statement on Attacks in the USA	28	(2)
Terrorism, Globalisation, Bio/diversity, Survival: A Feminist Perspective	30	(5)
Susan Hawthorne
A Pure, High Note of Anguish	35	(3)
Barbara Kingsolver
Why I Voted against War	38	(2)
Barbara Lee
A Pentagon Widow Pleads for Non-violence	40	(2)
Amber Amundson
I Too Am a Muslim, a Hindu, an Arab ...	42	(1)
Makere Stewart-Harawira
Resistance is Creative: False Options and Real Hope	43	(5)
Theresa Wolfwood
So the Party Is Over? The Global Justice Movement after September 11	48	(5)
Jen Couch
The Price of Life	53	(3)
Urvashi Butalia
Diverse Women for Diversity Statement	56	(2)
Transnational Feminists Transnational Feminist Practices Against War	58	(6)
It's Bloodthirsty Vengeance	64	(6)
Sunera Thobani
``Fatima'' Speaks: Resisting the Taliban	70	(6)
Janelle Brown
Gabriela Network Justice, Not Revenge; Peace, Not War; Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Not Fascism	76	(2)
Another Feminist Response to the Terrorist Attacks	78	(3)
Betty McLellan
A World Where Justice Brings Peace	81	(2)
Carol Anne Douglas
Reflections on ``Infinite Justice''	83	(6)
Azra Talat Sayeed
Whose War? 8 October to 13 November
First Writing Since	89	(6)
Suheir Hammad
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Statement on the US Strikes on Afghanistan	95	(2)
Women Oppose War	97	(3)
Mythily Sivaraman
Un Pave dans la mare, or Rocking the Boat: September 11 Viewed from France	100	(4)
Judith Ezekiel
Letter to President George W. Bush	104	(2)
Rigoberta Menchu Tum
No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak	106	(3)
Barbara Kingsolver
Union of Australian Women Statement	109	(2)
A War ... by Men	111	(3)
Kalpana Sharma
Federation of Uganda Women Letter to Kofi Annan	114	(3)
Telling It Like It Isn't	117	(3)
Ameena A. Saeed
What Does Feminism Have to Say?	120	(7)
Cynthia Peters
Life of Afghan Refugee Women	127	(2)
Cilocia Zaidi
Globalisation and Talibanisation	129	(3)
Vandana Shiva
Testimony Before the Subcommittee of the US House on International Operations and Human Rights	132	(4)
Tahmeena Faryal
Weekday Warriors	136	(3)
Christina Gombar
Behind the Veil of Oppression	139	(4)
Sudha Ramachandran
Before the Bombs: My Beautiful Afghanistan	143	(3)
Lesley Garner
Women Living Under Muslim Laws Urgent Action Alert: Include Afghan Women in Transition Processes	146	(2)
Is This a Feminist War?	148	(3)
Jennie Ruby
A Call on Feminists to Protest the War Against Afghanistan	151	(5)
Nikki Craft
International Law and the Terrorist Attacks on the USA	156	(2)
Judith Gardam
Delhi Women's Petition Women Oppose War	158	(5)
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Appeal to the UN and World Community	163	(2)
Women's Networks: Islamists' Violence and Terror	165	(6)
Montserrat Boix
Whose Peace? 14 November to 8 March
Self Evident	171	(5)
Ani di Franco
Demanding to Be Heard	176	(3)
Fariba Nawa
What Do You Do When You Are Fed up with Men's Mismanagement of Our Planet Earth and Their Wars?	179	(2)
Zelda D'Aprano
Women in War	181	(2)
Gayle Forman
Interview with Mary Robinson	183	(3)
Rinku Pegu
Working Group on Women and International Peace and Security Call for Action	186	(3)
The Fundamental Mystery of Repressing Women	189	(3)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Afghan Women's Summit for Democracy The Brussels Proclamation	192	(5)
Letter from Brussels	197	(4)
Eve Ensler
Forever Victims	201	(3)
Anuradha M. Chenoy
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Declaration on the Occasion of International Human Rights Day	204	(5)
By Any Standard, This Is a War Against Afghans	209	(6)
Sonali Kolhatkar
Buying a Gladiatorial Myth	215	(2)
Naomi Klein
Peace Is the Only Option	217	(3)
Kalpana Sharma
Ayesha Khan
Women Making Peace and Women's Peace Action against War Statement following US President Bush's Hard-line Rhetoric directed at North Korea	220	(3)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Australia Letter to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition	223	(2)
Better the Devil You Know?	225	(2)
Zubeida Malik
Declaration on the Occasion of International Women's Day 2002	227	(1)
Bat Shalom
UNIFEM: United Nations Development Fund for Women Afghan Women's Consultation Concludes Today in Kabul	228	(2)
Gabriela Network Persevere in the Struggle against US Reoccupation of the Philippines	230	(2)
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Let Us Struggle Against War and Fundamentalism and for Peace and Democracy!	232	(13)
PART TWO: REFLECTIONS
Dislocations	245	(9)
Bronwyn Winter
Masculinity as a Foreign Policy Issue	254	(6)
Cynthia Enloe
Women, the Taliban, and the Politics of Public Space in Afghanistan	260	(25)
Valentine M. Moghadam
Afghanistan, Central Asia, Georgia: Key to Oil Profits	285	(12)
Karen Talbot
Huntington's ``Clash of Civilisations'' Thesis and Population Control	297	(5)
Farida Akhter
A War for Afghan Women?	302	(14)
Christine Delphy
Phantom Towers: Feminist Reflections on the Battle between Global Capital and Fundamentalist Terrorism	316	(15)
Rosalind Petchesky
The Algebra of Infinite Justice	331	(8)
Arundhati Roy
Fundamentalism, Violence and Disconnection	339	(21)
Susan Hawthorne
Who Will Mourn on October 7?	360	(12)
Bronwyn Winter
Eurocentrism, Orientalism and Essentialism: Some Reflections on September 11 and Beyond	372	(21)
Nahla Abdo
Feminist Snapshots from the Edge: Reflections on Women, War and Peace Activism in Israel after September 11	393	(19)
Ronit Lentin
The Phallus of September 11	412	(14)
Evelyne Accad
State of Emergency	426	(6)
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Good and Evil: At Home and Abroad	432	(18)
Diane Bell
If Women Really Mattered	450	(31)
Bronwyn Winter
Contributors	481	(14)
Permissions	495