volume 12 number 2 volume 12 numero 2 spring 1987
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Volume 12 Number 2 Volume 12 Numero 2 Spring 1987 Printemps 1987
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A Women's Studies Journal Journal d'etudes sur la femme
Part One of Peace Issue Table of Contents of Companion Volume 12 Number 1
Introduction Barbara Roberts, Guest Editor
Articles Phyllis Aronoff Reflections on Mi l i t a r i sm, Femin ism and Peace Work
Diana E. H. Russell The Nuclear Mental i ty: A n Outgrowth of the Masculine Mentality
Yvonne A. Bennett Vera Brit tain: Feminism, Pacifism and Problem of Class, 1900-1953
Candace Loewen M i k e Hears Voices: Voice of W o m e n and Lester Pearson, 1960-1963
Rosemarie Walther B r i n g i n g Chi ld ren U p W i t h i n the Fami ly in the Spirit of Peace and H u m a n i s m
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Conference Papers Jo Vellacott 36 Histor ical Reflections on Votes, Brooms and Guns . Admission to Pol i t ical Structures—On Whose Terms?
Maria Nzomo 40 Women, T h i r d World and International Peace
Barbara Roberts 47 Research and Resources for Feminist Peace Studies
ForemOtherS Kay Macpherson Persistent Voices: Twenty-Five Years with Voice of Women
Archives An Open Letter by Women, East and West 74
(Mrs.) Gertrude Richardson 75 The Women's Crusade
International Movement of Women Against War 76 Women Say No to War
Appeal to the Governments on the Occasion of UN International Conference of Women in Nairobi 76
A Petition For All Women to All Governments: Women Count—Count Women's Work 77
Every Woman's Peace Camp 77 Unity Statement
Petition of the Global Nation of Women for Recognition of Full Member Status in the United Nations 78
Sheila Brown Letter to Peter Gzowski
Poetry L e n n y L i a n e Debutante
Sadako Kurihara America Comes Out As The World's T o p In Anyth ing (Translated by Miyao Ohara) 16
Ruth Roach Pierson Wars and Roses 23
Joan Selinger Sidney At Birkenau 39 H a n k a Haran in 39
Carie Winslow Yearnings 81
Diana Thompson T o Bristol 98
Roberta Buchanan Elemental Poem 101
Short Story Lorrie Reierson Savage Indignation
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Reports Tatyana Mamonova 83 Solidarity Between American and Soviet Feminists
Barbara Lounder 86 (Some) Canadian Women and War
Shelly Romalis 90 Carry ing Greenham Home: The L o n d o n Women's Peace Support Network
Birgitte Siert Women's Alternatives for Peace
Excerpts from a Statement by Margarita Papan-dreou, Head of the Delegation of Greece to the World Conference for the U . N . Decade for Women 103
Joanne Oldring Sydiaha and Joanne Blythe The Despair and Empowerment Model—Its Definition and H o w it Relates to Women
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Art Joanne Oldring Sydiaha 113 One Woman's Art
Book Reviews Tatyana Mamonova, editor 117
Women and Russia: Feminist Writing from the Soviet Union (Andrea Chandler)
Gertrude Bussey and Margaret Tims 118 Pioneers for Peace: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1915-1965 (Frances Early)
B. Harford and S. Hopkins, editors 120 Greenham Common: Women at the Wire (Alan Silverman)
A. Cook and G. Kirk 120 Greenham Women Everywhere (Alan Silverman)
Birgit Brock-Utne 122 Educating for Peace: A Feminist Perspective (Barbara Roberts)
Betty Reardon 122 Sexism and the War System (Barbara Roberts)
Leonie Caldecott and Stephanie Leland, editors 124 Reclaim the Earth. Women Speak Out for Life on Earth (Erica Smith)
Dora Russell 126 The Religion of the Machine Age (G i l l i an Strange)
J i l l Liddington, editor 128 The Life and Times of a Respectable Rebel: Selina Cooper, 1864-1946 (Jo Vellacott)
Notices 130
Art and Photographs List of Art and Photographs in Volume 12 Numbers 1 and 2 140
Guidelines for Contributors/ A l'intention des collaborateurs
Table of Contents Contents of C o m p a n i o n V o l u m e 12, N u m b e r 1
Introduction
Barbara Roberts Guest Editor
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Micheline de Seve Introduction
Feminisme et nonviolence
Barbara Roberts Ni treve, ni abri: la guerre faite aux femmes
Helene Sarrasin Resister a I'Etat...Comment?
Gilles Labelle Politique, masculinite et violence
Michelle Duval La nouvelle colere des femmes
Pacifisme et feminisme
Nathaly Gagnon Le mouvement pacifisle au quebec: reflexions d'une militante
Alan Silverman Le feminisme et le mouvement canadien pour la paix: reflexions d'un militant de sexe masculin Ginette Legault
Pacifisme et feminisme: strategies et perspectives d'avenir
Articles Christine Ball Women, Rape and War: Patriarchal Functions and Ideologies
Helena Lewis Elsa Triolet, Le Parti communiste francais and the Peace Movement in the Era of the Cold War Norma Lundberg
Making Sense of War: Demythologizing the Male Warrior
Kathleen Martindale Rita Mae Brown's SIX OF ONE and Anne Cameron's THE JOURNEY: Fictional Contributions to the Ethics of Feminists Nonviolence Wilfriede Otto and Siegfried Scholze The Contribution of Women in the German Democratic Republic to the Struggle for Peace, Past and Present
Conference Papers
Alice Wiser Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Women Patricia Froese and Sharon Froese Nielsen Gender and Attitudes Toward the Peace Movement
Susan Sherwin
Feminism and Theoretical Perspectives on Peace
Foremothers Frances Early An Interview with Mildred Scott Olmsted: Foremother of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Archives Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp Unity Statement Houston Council of Wise Women Let Women Lead Feminist International for Peace and Food A Call for Courage to Women Everywhere Feminist International for Peace and Food Nairobi N G O Forum Peace Tent Federation of Greek Women Cockburn Sound Women's Peace Camp The USA Presence in Australia
Eva Quistorp, Co-founder, Women for Peace, East and West [Germany] Against daily violence
Poetry
Jacqueline Pelletier desarmee Paroles de femmes Deena Metzger Right Action
Christine Nielsen In the Shadow of War
Helma Rogge Still naked
Sadako Kurihara We Shall Bring Forth New Life
Somer Brodribb Conflict
Mary Ann Beall Lillilh
Roberta Buchanan Socialization
Reports
Carola Addington Greenham Common—Four Years On Holl is Giammatteo 2,700 Miles to Amarillo Spinder Kia Kvindefredslejren: After a Year in a Danish Women's Peace Camp
Diana E. H . Russell The Birth of FANG—A Feminist AntiNuclear Group Marion Reran s The Halifax Women's International Peace Conference
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Wilma Needam, Curator Women and Peace Exhibition
Book Reviews
Fran Peavey Heart Politics (Jeanne Fay) Rosalie Bertell No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth (Susan Holtz)
Deena Metzger The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them and Tree (Kathleen Martindale) Cynthia Enloe Does Khaki Become You? The Militarisation of Women's Lives (Ruth Roach Pierson)
Participants of the Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp We are Ordinary Women: A Chronicle of the Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp (Linda Christiansen-Ruffman) Beata Lipman We Make Freedom: Women in South Africa (Rieky Stuart) Ellen Bass Our Stunning Harvest (Susan M. Zettell)
CO-ORDINATING EDITORS/ REDACTRICES EN CHEF
Susan Clark Deborah Poff Margaret Conrad
GUEST EDITOR/ REDACTRICE INVITEE
POETRY EDITOR/ EDITEUR DE POESIE
ART EDITOR/ DIRECTRICE ARTISTIQUE
EDITORIAL BOARD/ COMITE DE REDACTION
MANAGING EDITOR/ DIRECTRICE DE LA REDACTION
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS/ ASSISTANTES DE PUBLICATION
Barbara Roberts
Margaret Harry
Mora Dianne O'Neill
Patricia Connelly Paula Chegwidden Frances Early Karin Flikeid Wendy Katz Hilary Thompson L. Sutcliffe Roden Renee Ledwidge
Martha Barnstead
Peter Glenister Janice Piska Judith Shiers Nancy McCarthy Janice Baker Suzanne LeBlanc Judy Purcell
ADVISORY BOARD/ COMITE CONSULTATIF
Christine Allen Maureen Baker Naomi Black Janine Brodie Muriel Duckworth Margrit Eichler Jean Elliott Gabriel Fischer Margaret Fulton Deborah Gorham Frances Henry Elizabeth Jones Linda Kealey Toni Laidlaw Marie Lavigne Mairi St. John Macdonald Carrie MacMillan Teresa MacNeil Irene Mailhot-Bernard Lorna Marsden Thelma McCormack Joan McFarland Lorraine McMullen Wendy Mitchinson Patricia Morley Joy Parr Ruth Pierson Irene Poelzer Madeleine Poulin Alison Prentice Susan Sherwin Patricia Smart Dorothy Smith Donna E. Smyth Mary Sparling Marylee Stephenson Jennifer Stoddart Veronica Strong-Boag Lois Vallely-Fischer Jill Vickers Patricia Waring Lorette Woolsey
