Terror, Counter-Terror

Terror, Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out presents articles by severalwomen writers and women’s organizations. The book analyzes and interrogatesthe madness of male-dominated war and violence, and presentswomen’s perspectives on war and the 9/11 tragedy. Contributors includefeminist writers, authors, academics, and journalists; mothers, women ofcolor, Muslim women; and women who have had first-hand experiencewith war and its effects. The editors provide an excellent critical reappraisal of the ideas, concepts,and language that underpin the multilayered world of war, power, andpeace. The book also explores diverse women’s perspectives on the failure ofwar to bring about peace. In giving their perspective, the authors respond eloquentlyand defiantly to war’s destructive nature. This collection, a wonderfulanthology of women’s experiences of war, allows the reader to capture thesuffering of war as well as its paradoxes, double standards, and contradictions.The essays are organized into seven sections: “Personal and Political,”“The War on Terror,” “Saying No,” “Motherland/ Fatherland,” “The War onWomen,” “Displaced and Dispossessed,” and “Women against War.”The book highlights the wars in Afghanistan and Israel and the 9/11tragedy. The authors lament that war has never really brought peace, butrather turmoil and human and economic suffering. Most people in theWest see sanitized images of war that are carefully selected for them.Women Speak Out tells the story of how loosing one’s children, home, andlivelihood are part of war’s true horrors ...