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From Margaret Atwood to Daisy Zamora, Simone de Beauvoir to Virginia Woolf, many of the world''s greatest women writers have reflected upon one of humanity''s most tragic and powerful experiences: war. Yet most of these writings are little known, just as women''s perceptions of war remain largely absent from the history books.

Women on War gathers together writings by more than 150 women, including renowned poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, and activists, as well as ordinary women with firsthand experience of armed conflict as survivors, refugees, rape victims, nurses, and soldiers. Spanning the globe and traversing more than two centuries, the pieces in this compelling collection range from an ancient verse by Sappho about a wife who awaits the return of her warrior husband to an essay by Arundhati Roy about the impact of September 11. In voices that are gripping, mournful, defiant, and often surprisingly hopeful, these writers join to produce a portrait of wartime experience and a plea for peace.

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      Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
      Publication Date: 17/04/2003
      ISBN13: 9781558614093, 978-1558614093
      ISBN10: 1558614095

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From Margaret Atwood to Daisy Zamora, Simone de Beauvoir to Virginia Woolf, many of the world''s greatest women writers have reflected upon one of humanity''s most tragic and powerful experiences: war. Yet most of these writings are little known, just as women''s perceptions of war remain largely absent from the history books.

      Women on War gathers together writings by more than 150 women, including renowned poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, and activists, as well as ordinary women with firsthand experience of armed conflict as survivors, refugees, rape victims, nurses, and soldiers. Spanning the globe and traversing more than two centuries, the pieces in this compelling collection range from an ancient verse by Sappho about a wife who awaits the return of her warrior husband to an essay by Arundhati Roy about the impact of September 11. In voices that are gripping, mournful, defiant, and often surprisingly hopeful, these writers join to produce a portrait of wartime experience and a plea for peace.

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