The writings in this collection cover a range of genres from memoir, historical accounts, and critical essays, to an exercise on “art as a healing tool” for adult survivors of domestic violence. What holds the writings together is an urgency to reflect on and analyze women’s activism on the frontlines — from Palestine, Sudan, Iran, Kosova, and rural India to Serbia, Croatia, Okinawa, Israel, U.S. prisons, and the racialized American South. The essays introduce and elaborate upon concepts fundamental to a transnational feminist politic: (1) the “frontlines” of feminist struggle, (2) the masculinist nationalism of the rhetoric and practice of “national security,” (3) the profound links between domestic and public/state violence against women, (4) the role of nonviolent and not-nonviolent action against patriarchy and militarism, and (5) women’s labor militancy as a form of struggle against a racialized, capitalist patriarchy. This is an important collection encapsulating transnational feminist thought in the context of war. ISBN 0815334427: $54.00 ND
The ironies. This is from a U.S. State Dept. website! http://usembassy.state.gov/chennai/wwwhrsoc.html Other reviews of Mike Davis and Randall Robinson, too! Michael Pugliese