Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front Author: Anna Krylova Reviewer: Franziska Exeler Publisher: Cambridge University Press, March 2010 (WNN) Review: During World War II, an estimated 820.000 women served in the Soviet forces. While many of them were officially noncombatants such as medics, radio operators, or truck drivers, a [...]
Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case-Study Author: Nadera Shalhoub-kevorkian Reviewer: Stephanie Chaban Publisher: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society The history of Palestinian women’s agency and activism is long and not simply a byproduct of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.[1] However, such activism has grown and matured out [...]
TRAUMATIC POSSESSIONS Studies of traumatic stress have explored the challenges to memory as a result of extreme experience, particularly in relation to the ways in which trauma resonates within the survivor’s body and the difficulties survivors face when trying to incorporate their experience into meaningful narratives. Jennifer Griffiths examines the attempts of several African [...]
WNN Reviews – Review by Allison Baker – Tuesday, 15 June, 2010 In her book, “Breast Stories,” Mahasweta Devi, as an Indian intellectual known for her feminist, deconstructionist, and subaltern criticisms in cultural texts, literature and her own radical writings, tells the stories of the women of India who are caught endlessly in the cycles of holiness and [...]
WNN Reviews The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 I Do Not Come to You by Chance Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani New York: Hyperion, 2009 An Elegy for Easterly Petina Gappah New York: Faber and Faber, 2009 Women Writing Zimbabwe Irene Staunton, Ed. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press, 2008 ________ [...]
