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After Shock: September 11, 2001 Global Perspectives will be available in USA and Canada in September 2003
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
Feminist Perspectives
Susan Hawthorne & Bronwyn Winter (eds.)
Contributors include:Revolutionary Association of Afghanistan Women, Rigober ta Menchu, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Robin Morgan, Catherine MacKinnon, Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan, Barbara Kingsolver, Christine Delphy, Evelyne Accad, Diane Bell, Arundhati Roy, Ronit Lentin, Zelda D ’Aprano, Urvashi Butalia, Kalpana Sharma.
Table of Contents
When the Twin Towers in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington were hit by planes the western world stood in shocked silence. Then came the commentators, the endless news reports, and the repeated replays.
Some women spoke out, some wrote for newspapers, some for email lists and the internet. But in the mass of commentary it was hard to find feminist perspectives. This collection of pieces by Australian and International feminists brings together the voices of women and discusses the connections between war, terrorism, fundamentalism, racism, global capitalism and male violence. From the US to Afghanistan, from Pakistan and India, from Australia to Europe, they have deconstructed this story, and retold it from a feminist perspective, in a powerful indictment of current global politics.
Errata:
Robin Morgan's email of 19 September was inadvertently cut during production. The publisher and the editors would like to apologise for this error. To read her complete text click here or read it in her " Letters from Ground Zero" which appears as the Afterword to the new, updated edition of her book The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism (Piatkus Books, UK; Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, USA, 2002.)
Bronwyn Winter is a lesbian feminist activist and academic. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of French Studies at the University of Sydney, where she is also branch president of the National Tertiary Education Union. Her work on feminist theory, women and the idea of 'culture', islamism, women and politics, liberalism and women's human rights has been widely published in international journals and anthologies.
Susan Hawthorne has been a political activist for thirty years.
She is also the
author of Wild Politics
author of The Falling Woman
author of The Spinifex Quiz Book
co-editor and contributor of Angels of Power with Renate Klein
co-editor and contributor of Australia for Women with Renate Klein
co-editor and contributor of Moments of Desire
co-editor and contributor of Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love with Cathie Dunsford and Susan Sayer
co-editor and contributor of September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives with Bronwyn Winter
co-editor and contributor to CyberFeminism
contributor to There is and Alternative
contributor to Radically Speaking
Online poetry by Susan Hawthorne:
The Animist - Poems from Bird
Cyberpoetry - Unstopped Mouths
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