After Shock: September 11, 2001: Global Feminist Perspectives

by Susan Hawthorne

Women's voices against calls for violent retaliation following the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were not widely disseminated in the mainstream media, in spite of the fact that the plight of women in Afghanistan was used by Laura Bush and Cherie Blair to help justify their husbands initiating the bombing of that country. Feminist activists Hawthorne and Winter document those unheard voices in this collection of 84 pieces from world, including contributions from Representative Barbara Lee (who cast the lone Congressional vote against the war in Afghanistan), Barbara Kingsolver, Rigoberta Menchú, Vandana Shiva, Ani DiFranco, Sonali Kolhatkar, Catharine MacKinnon, and Arundhati Roy. This is a paperbound reprint of a 2002 book. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Genres: Feminism, Academic

528 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Susan Hawthorne is the author of six collections of poetry, a novel, political theory and a quiz book. Her poetry collections include The Language in My Tongue (1993), Bird (1999), The Butterfly Effect (2005), Unsettling the Land (with Suzanne Bellamy, 2008), Earth’s Breath (2009) and Cow (2011). Her other titles include The Falling Woman (1992), Wild Politics (2002) and The Spinifex Quiz Book (1993). Susan is a poet, novelist, aerialist, political activist and publisher.

Born in Wagga Wagga, she grew up in rural New South Wales. She has a BA (Hons) from La Trobe University in Philosophy, an MA (Prelim) in Ancient Greek language and a PhD in Political Science and Women’s Studies both from the University of Melbourne, and a Post-graduate Diploma in Sanskrit from La Trobe. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University, Townsville. In 2009, Susan was an Asialink Literature Resident at the University of Madras, Chennai. She has lectured, spoken and performed at festivals and conferences around Australia and in New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK, India, France, Bangladesh, Netherlands, Germany, Korea, Spain, Fiji, South Africa, Uganda. She is also a publisher and Director of Spinifex Press and played a leading role among independent Australian publishers in innovative and eBook publishing.

Reviews

[katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recommend reading this over time in little pieces. There's a lot to take in.

[Lesley]

I bought this book when it was first published. I probably didn't read every essay in it, and I probably won't now. But I'll read some, and let you know what I think six years --a lifetime--later.