Feminists go to war: Christine Stolba says feminists are between a rock and a hard place.

From: Women's Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

"WAR IS a contagion," Franklin D. Roosevelt said, just four years before he led the United States into one that changed the course of history. But what is war today? For contemporary feminists, war is neither contagion nor geopolitical reality. War is simply the ultimate breakdown in communication. "I feel like I'm standing on a playground where the little boys are all screaming at each other, 'He started it!' and throwing rocks," the novelist Barbara Kingsolver opined recently in the Los Angeles Times. "I keep looking for somebody's mother to come on the scene saying, 'Boys! ...

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