New Issue of off our backs is OUT!
Oct 1st, 2008 by admin
Hello All,
I am very pleased to share that the Women’s Visions For Peace issue of off our backs is out. I was the guest editor for this issue which, sadly, may be the last print issue of oob, although a web presence will continue (see more about this on the oob website). Below is the intro from their website as well as a list of authors. If you are not a subscriber, there is info on their site about ordering copies. As I’ve told many of you, I see this as only the beginning as far as bringing together women’s voices for peace, the next step will hopefully be a book that will allow many more voices to be included.
I am very grateful to the entire oob collective for the opportunity to work with them and to produce this collection and to the authors all of whom it was a joy to work with, it was a deeply enriching experience.
–Lucinda Marshall
“What could be more important than peace? Peace with justice; peace with an end to all violence against women; peace that ends racism, classism, and imperialism; peace that is not just the absence of war.
Peace activist Lucinda Marshall, our guest editor, has compiled a magnificent collection of articles on peace from women in many parts of the world. Her introduction presents the vision for this issue and a summary of the many perspectives on peace our authors represent. In a world whose so-called leaders don’t believe in the possibility of peace, much less strive for it, these visions provide an important counterbalance. We feel it is everyone’s dutyparticularly that of citizens of the largest military power in the worldto work for true peace. We feel that only a feminist perspectivewomen of all nations working as equal partnerscan bring peace.
We can’t thank Lucinda enough. She has brought together diverse voices, from the women of the Nyalebbe community in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Selma James of Wages for Housework, to Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, to Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen Sarah Deer, to CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin. All of these writers present distinct women’s views on war and peace. Lucinda’s work has created a collection that we expect to stand the test of time and remain a publication you will want to read and refer to for years to come.”
Complete list of authors:
Riane Eisler
Sarah Deer
Bernadette Muthien (South Africa)
Gila Svirsky (Israel)
Jody Williams
Genevieve Vaughan
Kalpana Sharma (India)
Hisako Motoyama (Japan)
Selma James (UK)
Ellen Adokorach, Mama Mado Beriu, Unwanga Jeannette and Biwaga Tabu (DRC)
Susan Hawthorne (Australia)
Heide Goetner-Abendroth (Germany)
Jane Roberts
Frida Berrigan
Judith Witherow
Senka Knezevic (Bosnia)
Janie Rezner
Medea Benjamin
Carol Anne Douglass
Sonali Kolhatkar
