Frontline feminisms : women, war, and resistance / edited by Marguerite R. Waller, Jennifer Rycenga. - xxxi, 472 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Gender, culture, and global politics ; v. 5 Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1436 . - Gender, culture, and global politics ; v. 5. Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1436. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series Editor's Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Domestic and Public Violence -- Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women -- Screaming in Silence -- From Reverence to Rape: An Anthropology of Ethnic and Genderized Violence -- Laughter, Tears, and Politics - Dialogue: How Women Do It -- The Opposite of War Is Not Peace - It Is Creativity -- Is Violence Male? The Law, Gender, and Violence -- Inter-Mission -- Art as a Healing Tool from "A Window Between Worlds" -- Gender, Militarism, and Sexuality -- Translating/Transgressing/Torture. -- Women and Militarization in Israel: Forgotten Letters in the Midst of Conflict -- Sudanese Women under Repression, and the Shortest Way to Equality -- Who Benefits? U.S. Military, Prostitution, and Base Conversion -- Demilitarizing Security: Women Oppose U.S. Militarism in East Asia -- Women's Politics and Organizing in Vietnam and Cambodia -- Women in Command: A Successful Experience in the National Liberation Army of Iran -- Inter-Mission -- Conversion -- The Passage -- Nonviolent, and Not-Nonviolent, Action against Patriarchy -- The Kitchen Cabinet -- Ritual as Resistance: Tibetan Women and Nonviolence -- The Impact of Women in Black in Israel -- Feminist Resistance to War and Violence in Serbia -- Gender, Nationalism, and the Ambiguity of Female Agency in Aceh, Indonesia, and East Timor -- Maria Stewart, Black Abolitionist, and the Idea of Freedom -- January 16, 1997: Message from Maryam Rajavi, President-Elect of the Iranian Resistance -- Inter-Mission -- "You Have a Voice Now, Resistance Is Futile!" -- Where Are the Frontlines? -- Women's Activism in Rural Kosova -- The Soldier and the State: Post-Liberation Women: The Case of Eritrea -- Beyond the Baton: How Women's Responses Are Changing Definitions of Police Violence -- Black Women and Labor Unions in the South: From the 1970s to the 1990s -- From the Mississippi Delta to South Central Los Angeles -- "A Struggle for the Mind": Black Working-Class Women's Organizing in Memphis and the Mississippi Delta, 1960s to 1990s -- A State of Work: Women, Politics, and Protest on an Indian Tea Plantation -- Contributors -- Index. Pt. I. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Pt. II. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Pt. III. Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Ch. 21. Ch. 22. Ch. 23. Ch. 24. Pt. IV. Ch. 25. Ch. 26. Ch. 27. Ch. 28. Ch. 29. Ch. 30. Ch. 31.

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