Introduction: Cassandra's Daughters xvii --
Part 1 Prophecies and Warnings --
Lament to the Spirit Of War / Enheduanna (circa 2300 B.C.E.) 3 --
Patriotism as a "Menace to Liberty" / Emma Goldman (1869-1940) 4 --
Militarism as a Province of Accumulation / Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919) 5 --
O Earth, Unhappy Planet Born to Die / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1956) 6 --
From The Face of War / Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) 7 --
Progress / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) 10 --
Declaration of Love / Carilda Oliver Labra (b. 1922) 11 --
Is There a Difference Between Men and Women and What If (This Week) / Grace Paley (b. 1922) 12 --
Children of the Epoch / Wislawa Szymborska (b. 1923) 14 --
Nightmare Factory / Maxine Kumin (b. 1925) 15 --
From Cassandra / Christa Wolf (b. 1929) 17 --
From Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War / Rosalie Bertell (b. 1929) 20 --
From Dark Fields of the Republic: Six Narratives / Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) 23 --
Stockpiling / Jayne Cortez (b. 1936) 24 --
Words Spoken by Pasternak During a Bombing / Bella Akhmadulina (b. 1937) 27 --
From The New Nuclear Danger / Helen Caldicott (b. 1939) 28 --
Bread / Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) 39 --
From Blood Rites: The Religion of War / Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941) 41 --
Among Tall Buildings / Molly Peacock (b. 1947) 49 --
Borders / Rochelle Ratner (b. 1948) 49 --
Fifties / Wendy Rose (b. 1948) 52 --
At Ground Zero in Hiroshima / Ann Druyan (b. 1949) 53 --
To the Soldiers of El Salvador / Lilliam Jimenez (b. circa 1950) 54 --
Sex and Death and the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals / Carol Cohn (b. 1951) 56 --
Bioterror and Biosafety / Vandana Shiva (b. 1952) 69 --
From Misogynies: Crawling from the Wreckage / Joan Smith (b. 1953) 70 --
Women and Conflict: A Serbian Perspective / Jasmina Tesanovic (b. 1954) 80 --
A Pure, High Note of Anguish / Barbara Kingsolver (b. 1955) 86 --
Why Missile Defense Will Not Make Us Safer / Theresa Hitchens (b. 1959) 88 --
Algebra of Infinite Justice / Arundhati Roy (b. 1961) 90 --
Part 2 Violence and Mourning --
From Song of pathos and Wrath and Eighteen Verses in Hun's Flute Melody / Tsai Wen-Ji (162-239) 101 --
Elegy for My Brother / al-Khansa (circa 575-646) 104 --
War of 1793 / Diodata Saluzzo (1774-1840) 104 --
From Hospital Sketches / Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) 105 --
First Long Range Artillery Fire on Leningrad / Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) 107 --
From Not So Quiet ... / Helen Zenna Smith (1896-1985) 107 --
From All Said and Done / Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) 111 --
From The War / Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) 115 --
Son of Man / Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1999) 116 --
Face Lost in the Wilderness / Fadwa Tuqan (b. 1917) 118 --
From The Wind Blows Away Our Words / Doris Lessing (b. 1919) 120 --
Death in Slow Motion / Andree Chedid (b. 1921) 127 --
Star Obscure / Gueni Zaimof (b. 1922) 131 --
War / Vesna Parun (b. 1922) 131 --
From Camp Notes / Mitsuye Yamada (b. 1923) 133 --
Evasion / Claribel Alegria (b. 1924) 135 --
Eyes of an Afghan Child / Nguyet Tu (b. circa 1925) 136 --
Hellish Years After Hellish Days / Toyomi Hashimoto (b. 1925) 137 --
Viet Minh and Famine / Tra Thi Nga (b. 1927), Wendy Wilder Larsen 142 --
From Comfort Woman / Maria Rosa Henson (1928-1996) 144 --
Songs of Bread and An Armenian Looking at Newsphotos of the Cambodian Deathwatch / Diana Der-Hovanessian (b. circa 1930) 147 --
Enemy Army Has Passed Through / Jaya Mehta (b. 1932) 149 --
Colonization of Our Pacific Islands / Chailang Palacios (b. 1933) 149 --
From Sorrow Mountain / Ani Pachen (b. 1933), Adelaide Donnelley 151 --
It's Not the Fear of Shivering / Gulten Akin (b. 1933) 157 --
Hatred / Maire Mhac an tSaoi (b. circa 1935) 157 --
Bombing of Baghdad / June Jordan (1936-2002) 158 --
From Maneuvers / Cynthia Enloe (b. 1938) 161 --
"Don't Speak the Language of the Enemy!" and The Exotic Enemy / Daniela Gioseffi (b. 1941) 165 --
From The Price of Freedom / Ellen Ndeshi Namhila (b. 1941) 170 --
From Beyond the Limbo Silences / Elizabeth Nunez (b. 1942) 173 --
Certain Winds from the South / Ama Ata Aidoo (b. 1942) 175 --
Report from Vietnam for International Women's Day / Minerva Salado (b. 1944) 181 --
"The Situation in Soweto Is Not Abnormal" / Mavis Smallberg (b. 1945) 181 --
Friend and Foe and To One in Beirut / Karen Alkalay-Gut (b. 1945) 182 --
Blood of Others / Gioconda Belli (b. 1948) 184 --
Morning in the Park Among the Nannies / Savyon Liebrecht (b. 1948) 185 --
From Boys in Zinc / Svetlana Alexiyevich (b. 1948) 193 --
Slavenka Drakulic (b. 1949) 200 --
From The Other Side of Silence / Urvashi Butalia (b. 1952) 203 --
From A Girl Soldier's Story / Marevasei Kachere (b. circa 1961) 207 --
Impact of Genocide on Women / Jean Kadalika Uwankunda (b. 1966) 212 --
Part 3 Courage and Resistance --
Deliverance of Argos / Adelaide-Gillette Dufresnoy (1765-1825) 217 --
A National Crime / Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) 219 --
From Women and Labour: Women and War / Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) 221 --
Finnish Champion / Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) 223 --
Women Take a Hand / Agnes Smedley (1892-1950) 224 --
Verses To Chekia / Marina Tsvetayeva (1892-1941) 228 --
Drought Breaks / Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) 229 --
Political Activism and Art / Lenore Marshall (1899-1971) 232 --
Kathe Kollwitz / Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) 234 --
Artist's Rebellious Integrity / Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923) 238 --
And Still I Rise / Maya Angelou (b. 1928) 240 --
Memory Says Yes / Margaret Randall (b. 1930) 241 --
From Sula / Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 242 --
Parachutist's Wife / Sandra M. Gilbert (b. 1936) 247 --
Nuclear Bomb Testing on Human Guinea Pigs / Darlene Keju-Johnson (b. 1936) 249 --
I Am Your Horse in the Night / Luisa Valenzuela (b. 1938) 252 --
Antigone / Ileana Malancioiu (b. 1940) 255 --
From The House of the Spirits: The Hour of Truth / Isabel Allende (b. 1942) 255 --
Blind, Unpredictable Terror / Ruth Rosen (b. 1945) 261 --
They Followed Us into the Night / Michele Najlis (b. 1946) 262 --
Guatemala, Your Blood / Alenka Bermudez (b. circa 1950) 263 --
Return / Carolyn Forche (b. 1950) 264 --
If Someone Else Is Suffering / Hannah Safran (b. 1950), Donna Spiegelman 267 --
Bath / Kimiko Hahn (b.1955) 272 --
From The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood / Molyda Szymusiak (b. 1962) 275 --
Three Poems / Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (Afghanistan) 283 --
We Are All Women in Black / Women in Black of Belgrade 287 --
Part 4 Hope and Survival --
To an Army Wife in Sardis / Sappho (circa 610 b.c.e.) 293 --
From Peace and Bread in Time of War / Jane Addams (1860-1935) 293 --
Yes to the Earth / Sibilla Alermo (1876-1960) 295 --
Free Women Blooming from Old Battlefields / Ch'iu Chin (1879-1907) 296 --
In Defense of the United Nations / Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) 297 --
I Have All the Passion of Life / Lolita Lebron (b. 1919) 299 --
Women Know a Lot of Things / Meridel Le Sueur (1923-1996) 301 --
Making Peace and What It Could Be / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 304 --
On a Japanese Beach / Nina Cassian (b. 1924) 306 --
From Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered / Ruth Kluger (b. 1931) 307 --
Future / Daisy al-Amir (b. 1935) 309 --
Spoils of War / Lynne Sharon Schwartz (b. 1939) 313 --
Ghosts and Echoes: Letter from Ground Zero / Robin Morgan (b. 1941) 315 --
A Forgiving Land / Lady Borton (b. 1942) 321 --
My Son's Childhood / Xuan Quynh (1942-1988) 324 --
Holding the Line at Greenham Common: On Being Joyously Political in Dangerous Times / Ann Snitow (b. 1943) 325 --
Only Justice Can Stop a Curse / Alice Walker/Zora Neale Hurston (b. 1944) 333 --
Black Woman / Nancy Morejon (b. 1944) 336 --
Letter to an Iraqi Woman / Mairead Corrigan Maguire (b. 1944) 337 --
Women and Ecology / Petra Kelly (1947-1992) 340 --
Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980 / Linda Hogan (b. 1947) 344 --
A New Dawn in Town / Flora Brovina (b. 1949) 346 --
Song of Hope and When We Go Home Again / Daisy Zamora (b. 1959) 346 --
A Time of Cannons Comes Flying / Ana Istaru (b. 1960) 347 --
Tough Love / Michelle Chihara (b. 1974) 350.