Around the world, women have long been on the frontlines, protesting war and military forces. The essays in this collection, from both scholars and activists, explore the experiences of local women's groups that have developed to fight war, militarization, political domination, and patriarchy throughout the world. The writings in this collection cover a range of genres from memoir and historical accounts to critical essays. What holds the writings together is an urgency to reflect on and analyze women's activism on the frontlines-from Palestine, Sudan, Iran, Kosovo, and rural India to Serbia, Croatia, Okinawa, Israel, U.S. prisons, and the racialized American South.

Marguerite R. Waller is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Jennifer Rycenga is an Associate Professor in the Comparative Religious Studies Program at San Jose State University.

Series Editor's Foreword Introduction Acknowledgements Illustrations PART I Domestic and Public Violence 1. Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women Angela Y. Davis 2. Screaming in Silence 17 Shadia el Sarraj 3. From Reverence to Rape: An Anthropology of Ethnic and Genderized Violence Vesna Kesic 4. Laughter, Tears, and Politics - Dialogue: How Women Do IT Vesna Kesic and Lepa Mladjenovic 5. The Opposite of War is Not Peace - It is Creativity 41 Zorica Mrsevic 6. Is Violence Male? The Law, Gender, and Violence Lucinda Joy Peach INTER-MISSION 7. Art as a Healing Tool, from A Window Between Worlds Cathy Salser PART II Gender, Militarism,and Sexuality 8. Translating/Transgression/Torture... Irene Matthews 9. Women and Militarization in Isreal: Forgotten Letters in the Midst of Conflict Isis Nusair 10. Sudanese Women under Repression, and the Shortest Way to Equality Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim 11. Who Benefits?:US Military, Prostitution, and Base Conversion Saundra Sturdevant 12. Demilitarizing Security: Women Oppose US Militarism in East Asia Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey 13. Women's Politics and Organizing in Vietnam and Cambodia Kathryn McMahon 14. Women in Command: A Successful Experience in the National Liberation Army of Iran Sorayya Shahri INTER-MISSION 15. Conversion Habiba Metikos 16. The Passage Vinka Ljubimir PART III Nonviolent, and Not-Nonviolent, Action against Patriarchy 17. The Kitchen asResistance: Tibetan Women and Nonviolence Benina Berger Gould 19. The Impact of Women in Black in Israel Gila Svirsky 20. Feminist Resistance to War and Violence in Serbia Lepa Mladjenovic and Donna M. Hughes 21. Gender, Nationalism, and the Ambiguity of Female Agency in Aceh, Indonesia, and East Timor Jacqueline Siapno 22. Maria Stewart, Black Abolitionist, and the Idea of Freedom Jennifer Rycenga 23. Message from Maryam Rajavi, President-Elect of the Iranian Resistance Maryam Rajavi INTER-MISSION 24. You Have a Voice Now, Resistance is Futile! Shashwati Talikdar Part IV Where are the Frontlines? 25. Women's Activism in Rural Kosova Eli 26. The Soilder and the State:Post-Liberation Women: The Case of Eritrea Sondra Hale 27. Beyond the Baton: How Women's Respnoses Are Changing Definitions ofPolice Violence Nancy Keefe Rhodes 28. Black Women and Labor Unions in the South: From the 1970s to the 1900s Ida Leachman 29. From the Mississippi Delta to South Central Los Angeles Georgiana Williams 30. A Struggle of the Mind:Black Working-Class Women's Organizing in Memphis and the Mississippi Delta, 1960s to 1990s Laurie Beth Green 31. A State of Work: Women, Politics, and Protest on an Indian Tea Plantation Piya Chatterjee Contributors