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Ch. 1. The endurance of women : before the beginning of time and onward -- Medusa, the Gorgon / Ellenburg -- The daughters of Boudicca / H. Byron Ballard -- In search of Hypatia / Kimberly Shuck -- This land had seen war before / Rhiana Yazzie -- Birthed from scorched hearts / MariJo Moore -- The shields of the earth / Dawn Karima Pettigrew -- Finding home / Linda Boyden -- A turned-around world / Linda Hogan -- Saga of American truth / Lee Maracle -- Dead over the hills : an interview with ex-slave Mrs. Phoebe Banks : from the WPA Oklahoma slave narratives / edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker -- Shelton Laurel diary / Kathryn Stripling Byer -- Carrie McGavock : the high priestess of the Temple of the Dead Boys / Deborah A. Bowles -- Vows / Glenis Redmond -- Rya's rainbow / Dolores Kendrick -- ch. 2. A world of war -- Hermine Jungus Komnik's World Wars I and II experiences and results / Paula Popow Oliver -- Granddaughter song / Laura Hope-Gill -- War is never done! / Barbara-Helen Hill -- A fragile beginning / Diana Festa -- My mother's tattoo / Helen Epstein -- War's sorrow visits our daughters and sons / Suzanne Zahrt Murphy -- La Scarlettina / Alexandria Giardino -- How I became an evacuee / Margaret Abruzzi -- Majestic theater : a landscape of war / Alice M. Azure -- Recsk : not even ghosts wish to visit here again / Emöke B'Rácz -- ch. 3. Memoirs of guarded reflections -- The collectors / Janet McAdams -- MIA, foreign and domestic / Kimberly Blaeser -- The coffee table book of war : a memoir / Daniela Gioseffi -- Patch work : picturing Vietnam / Rebecca Blevins Faery -- The Magellanic clouds of Vietnam / Grace Cavalieri -- Johnny Stack / Sheila Massoni -- Dodge Charger / Laura Tohe -- A woman accompanied by the world / Matilde Urrutia -- A snapshot in time : war in Ireland / Eavan Boland -- In search of a larger truth : Eritrea my Ithaca / Louisa Calio -- Lebanon, summer 2006 : a view from Cyprus / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- ch. 4. Different kinds of war : battles on the home front -- How could it be? / Nancy J. Jackson -- You're White / Christine Stark -- A glimpse into the life of a Levantine / Suranee Mariettha Perera -- Indigenous women and the legacy of oppression / Victoria Ybanez -- Surfacing / Michele Ramos -- The cure / Emily Ferrara -- Visceral / Carolyn Dunn -- Birthplace, women's maximum security prison, date, 1985 / Regina Krummel -- Fall, 1998 / Terra Trevor -- Last night the moon / Mary BlackBonnet -- Re-waging the battles : Native American women's poetry and the reinterpretation of war / Molly McGlennen -- ch. 5. Protestors, participants, peace : why, why not, and when? -- Goodnight, Mr. President / Ala Riani -- Those policemen are sleeping : a call to the children of Israel and Palestine / D.H. Melhem -- We live in violent times / Annmarie Sauer -- Protesting the war about to begin : March 19, 2003 / Charlotte Mandel -- Apache warrior, Apache troop / Paula Gunn Allen -- Figures from the Iraq War / Jun'er ; translated from the Chinese by Simon Patton -- Sufi dancing with dad / Marjorie Hudson -- After reading women on war / Pat Falk -- The call / Stacy Bannerman -- F-16 / Doris Seale -- The best way to honor my son's death would be to bring the troops home / Amy Goodman -- Grandma / Rochelle Ratner -- Selections from a war you carry in your pocket / Kimberly Roppolo -- Civics after Grace Paley / Demetria Martinez -- Two young lives before and after enlistment / Marie Nigro -- Better a good warrior / Cheryl Dietrich -- Woman's war cry / Angela Sterritt -- American helmuts / Bushra Al-Bustani ; translated from the Arabic by Wafa' A. Zeinal'abidin -- Requiem for arrival / Deema K. Shehabi -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- About the editor -- Contributors. |
