Women on war : essential voices for the nuclear age

Gioseffi, Daniela (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 067167157X
ISBN: 9780671671570
ISBN: 0671667815 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780671667818 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0671671570
Physical Description: print
391 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1988.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: p. 385-391.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt.1 Prophecies and warnings : Words spoken by Pasternak during a bombing / Bella Akhmadulina -- Freedom sloganeering as an excuse for war / Hannah Arendt -- Guatemala, your blood / Alenka Bermúdez -- Omnicide : the prophetic reality of species death / Rosalie Bertell -- Wars past and wars present / Lady Borton -- The progress / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The end of the world could still come next year / Helen Caldicott -- At ground zero in Hiroshima / Ann Druyan -- Letters to an open city / Carolyn Forché -- World War III is here in our bodies / Dara Janekovic -- To the soldiers of El Salvador who from 1931-1980 have ruled the country through a military dictatorship / Lilliam Jiménez -- Last flash / Erica Jong -- Nuclear bomb testing on human guinea pigs / Darlene Keju-Johnson -- The nightmare factory / Maxine Kumin -- The nuclear threat : a woman's perspective / Betty Lall -- Women's active role / Tat'yana Mamonova -- Political activism and art / Lenore Marshall -- O Earth, unhappy planet born to die / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- They followed us into the night / Michele Najlis -- That year / Grace Paley -- Among tall buildings / Molly Peacock -- My spoon was lifted / Naomi Replansky -- The fifties / Wendy Rose -- Love & war & the future & the Martians / Libby Scheier -- A Mayan prophecy / Sharon Spencer -- Stockpiles are used / Bertha von Suttner -- Children of the epoch / Wislawa Szymborska -- Never before : a warning / Maj Britt Theorin -- Women's peace platform for the summit / Women for a Meaningful Summit -- Alarms : monologue for Mother Earth / Susan Yankowitz -- The star obscure / Gueni Zaimof.