| Description |
viii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The power of wimyn / Judy Costello -- Part 1. (Poem) I am a dangerous woman / Joan Cavanagh -- Reclaiming nonviolence: some thoughts for feminist womyn who used to be nonviolent and vice versa / Jane Meyerding -- Patriarchy: a state of war / Barbara Zanotti -- Patriarchy is a killer: what people concerned about peace and justice should know / Donna Warnock -- Women, peace and power / Jo Vellacott -- (poem) A song for Gorgons / Barbara Deming -- (Interview) Feminism and disobedience: conversations with Barbara Deming / Mab Segrest -- (poem) Our stunning harvest / Ellen Bass -- Nonviolence and women: the pioneers / Margaret Hope Bacon -- Ida B. Wells: "Free Speech" and Black struggle / Rosemarie Freeney-Harding -- Jessie Daniel Ames: grass-roots anti-lynching campaign / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- The Amazon was a pacifist / Karla Jay -- Fannie Lou Hamer: Baptism by fire / Susan King -- We started from opposite ends of the spectrum / Cynthia Washington -- Women's consciousness and the Southern Black movement / Sara Evans -- Sailing into test waters / Barbara Reynolds -- How feminism changed the peace movement / Caroline WIldflower -- Feminism and the nonviolent revolution / Marion Bromley -- Feminist spirituality and nonviolence / Margaret Bishop -- Feminism and peace: the issues we work on / Kathy Bickmore -- Suffering / Eleanora Patterson -- Beyond Ghandhi: an American feminist's approach to nonviolence / Judy Costello -- An open letter to Ghandhi / Lynne Shivers -- The economic roots of the violent male culture / Lisa Leghorn -- A talk for the Conference on Feminism and Militarism / Karen Malpede -- Fear of "other": the common root of sexism and militarism / Cynthia Adcock -- The lure of the death culture / Erika Duncan -- More power than we want: masculine sexuality and violence / Bruce Kokopeli and George Lakey -- Sunpower/Moonpower/Transformation / Betsy Wright -- Utopian visions: reflections on feminist and nonviolent thought / Paula Rayman -- Only justice can stop a curse / Alice Walker -- The future, if there is one, is female / Sally Miller Gearhart. |
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Part 2. (song) Foolish Notion / Holly Near -- Reweaving the web of life / Catherine Reid -- Cop tales / Grace Paley -- Letter to the I.R.S. / Meg Bowman -- Fragment of a play in progress / Juanita Nelson -- (fiction) Sweet life / Charlotte Marchant -- Breaking the racism barrier: white anti-racism work / Donna Landerman -- Women and the draft / Karen Lindsey -- The Army will make a "man" out of you / Helen Michalowski -- (fiction) Uneasy borders / Valerie Miner -- Macho obstacles to peace / Ann Davidon -- (poems) Daughters, I love you / Linda Hogan -- The prevalence of the natural law within women: women and animal rights / Constantina Salamone -- Assertiveness, nonviolence and feminism / Priscilla Prutzman -- Physical resistance to attack: the pacifist's dilemma, the feminist's hope / Pat James -- Tentative steps toward nonviolent self defense / Pam McAllister -- Abortion: a woman's right to live / Leah Fritz -- Re-entering complexity / Rachel Bedard -- (poem) ... And brings peace / Jay Bird -- The passive violence of noninvolvement and our work of accountability / Sue Dove Gambill -- Message to the next civilization / Joan Baez -- Excerpts from the Unity Statement / Women's Pentagon Action. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-433) and index. |
| Subject |
Feminism -- United States.
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Antinuclear movement -- United States.
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Pacifism.
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Nonviolence.
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Antinuclear movement. (OCoLC)fst00810626
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Nonviolence. (OCoLC)fst01039027
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Pacifism. (OCoLC)fst01050108
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Feminisme.
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Vredesbeweging.
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Geweldloosheid.
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| Indexed Term |
Antinuclear movement United States |
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Feminism United States |
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Nonviolence |
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Pacifism |
| Added Author |
McAllister, Pam.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Reweaving the web of life. Philadelphia, PA : New Society Publishers, 1982 (OCoLC)558051822 |
| ISBN |
0865710163 (paperback) |
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9780865710160 (paperback) |
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0865710171 (hardback) |
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9780865710177 (hardback) |
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