Includes bibliographical references (323-330) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Helen Cooper, Adrienne Munich, and Susan Squier -- War and memory / June Jordan -- Arms and the woman: the con[tra]ception of the war text / Helen Cooper, Adrienne Munich, and Susan Squier -- "Still wars and lechery": Shakespeare and the last Trojan woman / Lorraine Helms -- Rewriting history: Madame de Villedieu and the wars of religion / Patricia Francis Cholakian -- Mute fury: southern women's diaries of Sherman's march to the sea, 1864-1865 / Jane E. Schultz -- Civil wars and sexual territories / Margaret R. Higonnet -- The women and men of 1914 / James Longenbach.
Corpus/corps/corpse: writing in the body in/at war / Jane Marcus -- May Sinclair's The Tree of Heaven: the vortex of feminism, the community of war / Laura Stempel Mumford -- Combat envy and survivor guilt: Willa Cather's "manly battle yarn" / Sharon O'Brien-- "Seeds for the sowing": the diary of Kathe Kollwitz / Sara Friedrichsmeyer -- A needle with mama's voice: Mitsuye Yamada's camp notes and the American canon of war poetry / Susan Schweik -- Feminism, the great war, and modern vegetarianism / Carol J. Adams -- Images of love and war in contemporary Israeli fiction: a feminist re-vision / Esther Fuchs -- Nuclear domesticity: sequence and survival / Gillian Brown -- "Epitaphs and Epigraphs: 'the end(s) of man'" / Barbara Freeman -- A bibliography of secondary sources / Jennifer Clark.