Description:
This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women's resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women's role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women's role in shaping resistance movements.
Review Quotes: "This is a timely intervention in women's resistance from the Global South that maps the complex labyrinth of women's opposition, agency, advocacy through various forms of art, literature, and activism. Removed from the 'strait-jacket' of organized resistance, it is a must-read for scholars, students, activists interested in women's voices and actions from the South as they defy and negotiate with micro and macro political structures of power."
--Swapna M. Banerjee "Professor of History, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York"