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