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Zainab Salbi's media profile soared with her first book, Between Two Worlds, a memoir of growing up in Saddam Hussein's inner circle. She has been a guest on "Oprah," has been interviewed by Katie Couric, Al Franken, and George Stephanopoulos, and has been profiled in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and People magazine. Her organization, Women for Women International, plays a vital role in helping to heal war-torn nations including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Rwanda, Congo, Sudan, and Colombia.
With stunning images by award-winning photographers Susan Meiselas, Lekha Singh, and Sylvia Plachy, Salbi presents a riveting collection of letters and first-person narratives by amazing women who survived war's devastation and now must find the strength to rebuild families and communities. Throbbing with pain and loss yet glowing with courage and hope, The Other Side of War explores six regions where Women for Women International has helped survivors of the world's most tumultuous countries learn new skills, open small businesses and forge bonds with sponsors.
Overviews by the author explain how each nation's history led to violent conflict; then, with searing eloquence, the women tell their stories—of horror, cruelty, and suffering but also of profound inspiration as they work toward renewal and toward the day their fierce determination is rewarded with productivity, prosperity, and lasting joy.
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The Other Side of War, not just a women's issue.......2007-02-07
The is a book that should be read and taught to students. It gives a real view of what war is and how it impacts everyone. It shows how women that have been so effected by war can help make changes in their areas, not just for their families, but for their society.
Wow!.......2007-01-09
What an honest and unusual life story! My daughter and I were not able to put this book down. The naive courage of the author comes through. She is not one to think "Someone should do something about that" but "I've got to do something about that", and begins an international charitable foundation from the basement, literally from the ground up. Most of us stand around wringing our hands in the face of cruel injustices; this is an example of what can be done by one determined person.
Restoring Faith in Humanity.......2006-10-14
Years ago, when I lived in Washington, DC, I had the privilege to know Zainab Salbi when she was first starting Women for Women (called Women for Women in Bosnia at that time). There was a glow of inspiration in her face when she spoke of the plight of women and there was also incredible strength in her. In a time when I am often ashamed of the gross inhumanity we practice upon our fellow man, women like Zainab and the others courageous enough to share thier stories in this book, restore my faith that one day humanity will actually deserve to call itself civilized. Until then, we must rely on the courage of the few, who like Zainab, see beyond themselves and into the hearts of the world.
The Other Side of War- Captivating, Encouraging and REAL.......2006-10-12
Once again Zainab Salbi and Laurie Becklund have brought a riveting picture of the reality of war from the perspective of those who are left to hold the pieces together- the women. My organization, Soroptimist International, has been working in partnership with Women for Women International on a project called Project Independence Women Survivors of War for 3 1/2 years and I have had the privilege to go "to the field" on three occasions and meet women in the program. It is not an accident that this amazing organization, through the leadership of Zainab- was just awarded the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Award last month. They are the first women's organization to ever recieve it- and the impact of the $1.5 million dollar gift will continue to transform lives of women who are currently socially isolated and desperate and in one year- they will be well on towards their journey of becoming self sufficient and active citizens. These stories are genuine, courageous and TRUE "snapshots" of the unspeakable costs of war- particularly on women. This is a must read! Dawn Marie Lemonds, Soroptimist International
Beautifully inspiring.......2006-10-10
Zainab Salbi's new book is a beautifully inspiring example of photo journalism and the heart-rending story about the other side of war. It will make a wonderful gift for the holidays. The women in the pictures reach out from the pages and touch your heart, while Salbi's words touch your soul. The message truly inspires me to not only be more thankful for all that life has given me, but also more understanding to what life has given others and seek out more ways to help these women survivors of war. The organization, Women for Women International is an amazing organization, doing amazing work; this new book is equally amazing!
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction.
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique." -- Newsweek.
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Victimology + Misandry + Selective Statistics = Faludi.......2007-09-05
There will come a day I am sure, when all the Pulitzer Prizes awarded to female writers in the 1980s and 1990s will be scrutinized, and withdrawn from the talentless who got them merely on the grounds of a favourable political climate. Anyone who has seen this sorry individual in the flesh, or at least on TV, will know she is one of the worst possible representatives of the female cause, if not the human race. She paints a unique view of reality as seen through her feminist-coloured spectacles, which, as they are polarized by hatred, allow her to see just 50% of reality. The other half she ignores, like any true victimologist. Wars that don't exist are never declared, Faludi. If you want to label the act of defending oneself against attack by revealing lies and distortions as 'backlash', then so be it. The real war is on boys and men in western society, which has long since been declared. It would be wonderful for her if we men would all just sit back and take her abuse and misinformation. Well, forget it Faludi. The days when feminists could spout creative statistics willy-nilly, safe in the knowledge that anyone questioning their lies would be labelled a right-wing conservative, are numbered. The growing number of those who oppose you is also made up to a larger and larger degree of liberals like myself. Thankfully, after an era of gender-madness, the world is once again seeing a shift back towards truth in gender issues, looking at the large number of objective books which have come out in recent years, and away from the hysterical lies which men and normal women have been forced to listen to for so long without replying. Time will no doubt see this bilge consigned to the literary garbage bin where it belongs, and the sooner the better.
Most Important.......2007-05-28
This critical, detailed analysis of our culture reveals the way women are oppressed. T.V., books, and magazines represent the sexist ideas that still exist in some individuals minds and reinforce them. Politicians, media gurus, and celebrities also represent some sexist ideas. Read this book to learn them all.
Basically written like agitprop.......2007-03-07
,,, instead of dispassionate, reasoned argument. Faludi interprets everything, *everything*, as proof of her argument that a "war" has been declared against women. There are no shades of grey, and no counterarguments in Faludi's book. This makes me wonder just how carefully she did her research; assumning she dug deeply enough, did she just disregard anything that didn't tend to support her point of view? I have worked hard to get a JD and an MBA, and if that education has given me only one great lesson, it's that you cannot ignore real contrary evidence (and it's always out there); you might not like it, but you must address it.
I'm a woman in my 50s, and I believe that, with friends like Faludi, women don't need enemies. If ever a man described women as inferior to men in terms of capacity for reasoned argument, all he'd need to do to prove his point is refer to Faludi's screed.
Faludi's book is geared to the sheep among women and the ignorant among young girls. Academics are bound to eat it up, unfortunately; particularly those poor disenfranchised tenured female professors.
Book TV Interview.......2007-02-04
I have just watched a lengthy Book TV interview with Susan Faludi on
C-Span. It was astonishing.
I give the book 5 stars (have not read it) to invite Susan and the sisterhood to read my review.
She was seamlessly "catty" and snide throughout--the very stereotype of the unhappy upper-class matrons I recall from my youth. She tagged almost every comment she made with a world-weary rush of fake snickers to, one gathers, prompt the uninitiated to understand the inside humor.
Her comments were peppered with smarmy jabs and snipings at enemies both cultural and personal as if to invite the viewer in to a private world of victimhood in which the sufferers were all women and all hip to their
situation yet, after all, powerless to grapple with their actual tormentors.
She needs some coaching.
Not again.......2006-10-25
Despite the fact that this book has been thoroughly dismissed as the pinacle of victimhood mentality and describes a backlash which never happened, despite many of its observations being demonstratedly shown to be baseless and flat out wrong, it still gets reprinted to produce more angry feminist graduates whose only skill in life is to whine about their systematic oppression while everyone else gets on with their lives making individual choices about their work and family life. Will somebody please tell them that their convulted oppressive patriarchy disappeared a long time ago and it is only their own victimhood mentality that prevents them from getting ahead in life.
A book only for the true believers and those taking women's studies. Totally irrelevant to everyone else who takes personal responsibilty for their own choices in life.
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A common political belief is that increased defense spending means increased defense, and this book puts the lie to it. Through extensive reporting and documentary research (which included fighting for and winning access to the 22 boxes of Reagan Secretary of the Navy John Lehman's private papers that are in Navy custody), Vistica tells the story of the scheming, often dishonest Navy leadership that led to tactically irrelevant spending in the 80s and 90s, and to the utter breakdown in decency and chain of command known as Tailhook.
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Yellow Journalism: An Example.......2005-09-23
As stated by another reviewer,this is just a piece of hack writing by an anti-military liberal 'journalist',who plays fast and loose with the facts.To be sure,the Navy made some big mistakes,but Mr.Vistica paints as dirty a picture as possible,and fails to tell of all the right things that were done by many in the service,in order to correct what went wrong.(but that woundn't sell books).
Who is this Guy?.......2004-05-13
Having served in the operations field of the Navy from the Vietnam era to after Desert storm I can with some reliability say that this book is nothing more than pure liberal hogwash from a typically liberal biased journalist who's sensationalism of the Reagan years is designed to bring him a fat paycheck at the expense of gullible readers who could have no concept of what might be the truth. In Pontious Pilate's words "what is truth?"
Truth one; The Soviet Union had built a huge military whose mission was power projection as witnessed by their buildup of an amphibious navy and their proliferation of long range strategic (not tactical) nuclear weapons. These are not weapons of defense.
Truth two; Anybody living in the Czech Republic, East Germany and Poland can adequately bear witness to the Soviet Unions desire for global domination via their defensive (sarcasm) takeover of those countries and their defensive (more sarcasm) attempt at taking over Afghanistan. None of these countries were a threat to the Soviet Union.
Truth Three; The soviet union is 'no more' and part of the reason for that is Reagan's buildup of our Navy along with his hardline diplomacy towards the Soviet Union. Lehmen was right and that buildup worked.
Truth Four; We are currently in a war in the middle east that has drained our military resources to the limit because of the drawdown perpetrated by the Reagan/Bush1 successor. Our reservists/national guard are spending more time doing their part time military job than they are in their civilian full time job. Not even a small war in Iraq can be sustained without a military approaching the size of the Reagan years. We should be more concerned about how small our current Navy is instead of how large it was during Reagan's tenure.
Truth Five; If these documents that the author has said he is using are classified then the author needs to be in jail for accessing them. Classified means having a clearence AND a need to know in order to have access. None of which this journalist has.
There are many out there whose viewpoints are only looking for validation and my review of this book is certainly not going to change your mind. For those of you who have not made up your minds take this book with a huge grain of salt. If you want dirt about the military, and it's ridiculous spending, the Reagan years are not it. You would be best served by reading about the Kennedy years and secretary Mcnamara.
Fair and Balanced.......2003-11-15
A hard-hitting book that pulls no punches detailing the excesses of the Reagan Navy.
All force planners told Lehman that even if they could get the money to build the 600-ship navy, they couldn't sustain it.
Civilian and Navy intelligence agencies said to defeat the Soviets, the navy should be submarine and anti-submarine oriented.
We built a navy we couldn't sustain and we're still paying for it.
X-Rated.......2003-04-21
"Fall From Glory: The Men Who Sank the U.S. Navy," by Gregory L. Vistica is a powerful journalistic examination of the political manipulation of American taxpayer dollars and the disgraceful treatment of women who had answered the nation's call to service. However, be warned...it is also filled with excessive and graphic X-Rated pornagraphic narratives.
The author does a worthy service in documenting how Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, a President Ronald Reagan appointee in 1981 orchestrated the largest peacetime naval buildup in the nation's history. Vistica explains how the rallying cry for building the fleet had been the Soviet bogeyman. Moreover, he documents how the Navy had known all along that the Soviet Fleet was defensive in nature and not a threat to the United States. Consequently, the American taxpayer paid the bill for an excessive expansion that included a "six hundred ship Navy" that was not needed and mothballed at great expense.
This book also focuses on the role of women in the Navy and gives a step by step account of the hidden dirty laundry at the prestigious U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Vistica also displays intimate details of the infamous Navy and Marine aviators Tailhook Association annual gatherings in Las Vegas. Vistica is a first class researcher and an enormously talented writer who must be credited for being meticulous in detail. Nevertheless, he displays an amazing lack of maturity for lowering himself into the gutter and reporting news not fit to print.
Bert Ruiz
AWESOME!!!.......2003-04-16
I remember when I started flight school in the Navy. I knew little about the politics of the Department, and was a big fan of John Lehman. I grew to despise him over the years. He never earned his Naval Flight Officer's Wings. He is the only citizen that I know of who was ever authorized to wear such an insignia and joy ride in the right seat of an A-6. His vision for a 600 ship Navy, and the information provived to Congress to get it, was based on lies. John Lehman ultimately weakened the United States. As a result of John Lehman, tens of billions were spent on worthless weapons systems. We are still paying for it. Vistica's book is right on target. In the 1980s, the U.S. Navy was an authority unto itself. Its real mission had little to do with national security, but rather advancing its own selfish interests. Our leaders were a bunch of gutless, and spineless self promoters who would stab their mothers in the back rather than take personal responsibility for their disasters.
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Mediocre.......2003-08-16
Mostly a personal account, not much real data. Sort of a feminist take on rape in wartime, but a little under-researched and over-dramatized. Not recommended.
Take Note: An Influential Book.......2001-04-02
Rape Warfare was a courageous book to write: Beverly Allen dared to speak out about how rape was being used systematically before `historical consensus' had validated that claim. Thus it became an influential and historically significant work, credited today with having been instrumental in the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal's decision to change international law so that war rape might now be prosecuted as a "crime against humanity." The very first convictions under this new law were handed down in February 2001.
Incidentally, some apparently not up-to-date on recent strides in research approaches, failed to grasp the importance of the inclusion in Rape Warfare of Dr. Allen's personal responses, especially considering the situation on the ground in the Balkans at that time. The information coming from interviews is always shaped by the attitudes and expectations of the interviewer. Thus it becomes the interviewer's duty to both REVEAL and SITUATE the details of her/his own subjectivity.
By withholding the gruesome details of the rapes, Allen protected the women she interviewed; she spared them the kind of re-victimization they experience when journalists pander to public prurience, making pornography of these women's horrors. Nonetheless, or perhaps even, therefore, Rape Warfare is also `about' the power of stories; it makes a significant contribution to demonstrating that narrative, often disqualified as "not objective," is, in fact, a valid tool for discovering the deepest truths.
[Susan Schwartz Senstad is the author of MUSIC FOR THE THIRD EAR (Picador, 2001), which treats the fate of, among others, a Croatian woman who seeks asylum in Norway after being subjected to the mass rapes in Bosnia.]
Take Note: An Influential Book.......2001-04-02
Rape Warfare was a courageous book to write: Beverly Allen dared to speak out about how rape was being used systematically before `historical consensus' had validated that claim. Thus it became an influential and historically significant work, credited today with having been instrumental in the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal's decision to change international law so that war rape might now be prosecuted as a "crime against humanity." The very first convictions under this new law were handed down in February 2001.
Incidentally, some reader reviewers, apparently not up-to-date on recent strides in research approaches, failed to grasp the importance of the inclusion in Rape Warfare of Dr. Allen's personal responses, especially considering the situation on the ground in the Balkans at that time. The information coming from interviews is always shaped by the attitudes and expectations of the interviewer. Thus it becomes the interviewer's duty to both REVEAL and SITUATE the details of her/his own subjectivity.
By withholding the gruesome details of the rapes, Allen protected the women she interviewed; she spared them the kind of re-victimization they experience when journalists pander to public prurience, making pornography of these women's horrors. Nonetheless, or perhaps even, therefore, Rape Warfare is also `about' the power of stories; it makes a significant contribution to demonstrating that narrative, often disqualified as "not objective," is, in fact, a valid tool for discovering the deepest truths.
[Susan Schwartz Senstad is the author of MUSIC FOR THE THIRD EAR (Picador, 2001), which treats the fate of, among others, a Croatian woman who seeks asylum in Norway after being subjected to the mass rapes in Bosnia.]
Terrible Book.......2000-12-29
Allen knows zilch about the Balkans, knows nothing about the war, prattles on incessantly about herself. Seems she heard some horrifying stories of mass rapes from acquaintances and decided to write about how bad that made her feel. That's it. If you care about that, then this book is for you.
Not a Great Book.......2000-03-17
After reading the book, I read all of the reviews below. This book isn't as bad as the worst critics make it out to be, but it's not as good as the apologists purport. It's just another read. If you get assigned it for a feminist class, relax, read it, and move on. It's a strange book because it's not really about Bosnia - not having much to offer about politics or the war. It's not about sexual politics - being just another feminist screed. But it's mostly about the writer's own personal thoughts on rape as a military tool. If that interests you, you'll enjoy the book. If not, you probably won't be able to finish it.
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Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping (War and Peace Library)
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This book explores the gendered and gendering effects of violence against women in extreme situations such as major wars, genocides, famines, slavery, the Holocaust, mass rape and ethnic cleansing. The female experience of methodical genocidal rape in the former Yugoslavia, women’s coerced participation in the Rwandan massacre, the comfort women system during World War II, the gendering of genocidal strategies during the Holocaust, nuclear testing in the Pacific and the reproduction ‘policy’ in Tibet are all integrated into a wider framework – a framework which uncovers the true consequences of identifying women as simultaneously sexual objects, transmitters of culture and symbols of the nation.
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Alexandra Stiglmayer interviewed survivors of the continuing war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to reveal, to a seemingly deaf world, the horrors of the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia. The women—primarily of Muslim but also of Croatian and Serbian origin—have endured the atrocities of rape and the loss of loved ones. Their testimony, published in the 1993 German edition, is bare, direct, and its cumulative effect overwhelming.
The first English edition contains Stiglmayer's updates to her own two essays, one detailing the historical context of the current conflict and the other presenting the core of the book, interviews with some twenty victims of rape as well as interviews with three Serbian perpetrators. Essays investi-gating mass rape and war from ethnopsychological, sociological, cultural, and medical perspectives are included.
New essays by Catharine A. MacKinnon, Rhonda Copelon, and Susan Brownmiller address the crucial issues of recognizing the human rights of women and children. A foreword by Roy Gutman describes war crimes within the context of the UN Tribunal, and an afterword by Cynthia Enloe relates the mass rapes of this war to developments and reactions in the international women's movement.
Accounts of torture, murder, mutilation, abduction, sexual enslavement, and systematic attempts to impregnate—all in the name of "ethnic cleansing"—make for the grimmest of reading. However brutal and appalling the information conveyed here, this book cannot and should not be ignored.
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Worth the time.......2000-04-26
This was a decent grouping of articles relating to the mass rapes occuring in Bosnia. Including interviews with the women themselves, as well as some of the rapists, it paints a vivid picture of these troubling events. I would have liked more analysis of the situation, specifically within the context of other wars in which rape has been a primary tool of warfare. Also, more information on where officials in Bosnia stand on this issue. This book could have been more well-rounded analytically.
A Generally Strong Analysis of the Horrific Rapes in Bosnia.......1998-12-06
Stiglmayer's useful book binds together a dozen essays on the mass rapes in Bosnian war. When it was written in 1993 the conflict still raged and disclosures of systematic government-ordered rapes primarily against Muslim women by Serbs were new and shocking to most readers. Now five years later the crimes still shock, but by their magnitude and not their novelty. This book is still a powerful witness to the rapes, but more importantly it provides a legal, psychological, and historic framework for coming to an understanding which is necessary if we are to try to prevent more such horrors in the future, or at least to provide a timely intervention and vigorous prosecution of the perpetrators.
Stiglmayer's own pair of essays are the most useful and interesting. Her first piece is an absorbing history of the Balkans that concisely untangles the web of hatreds and violence which have plagued the area for millennia and which are still powerfully germane. Her second piece constitutes the heart of the book. In it she dramatically and persuasively demonstrates that the rapes in Bosnia are not "typical" rapes, even by wartime standards, but are a tool systematically employed by the Serb leadership to pursue its genocidal campaign of "ethnic cleansing". Her interviews illustrate that the rapes are about the humiliation of women, but they are also directed at the Bosnian Muslim population as a whole as a tactical means to accomplish the evacuation by the Muslims of large swaths of Bosnian territory.
In other essays, Paul Parin offers some ideas on the psychology of the rapes. He doesn't claim to have all the answers, but his essay is thought-provoking. Rhonda Copelon provides a considered analysis of the state of international law and its applicability to the Bosnian horrors. Her otherwise sound piece is marred by her lawyerly/academic tendency to misuse words ("surface" as a transitive verb meaning "bring to light"; "intersectional" where she means "intersecting") and her occasional unlawyerly hyperbole (she notes on p.198 that a midday women's talk show opened with the script, "In Bosnia, they are raping the enemy's women". Two pages later this has turned into the assertion that the media "often refer to the mass rape in Bosnia as the rape of the `enemy's women'").
Surprisingly, the most disappointing essays are those by the best-known authors. The first of Catharine MacKinnon's two pieces is a reprint of a 1993 Ms. Magazine article. She gets in some obligatory feminist chops, pokes at Gloria Steinem, equates the Third Reich with Penthouse, and moans about American women in porn films, in brothels, and in slavery. She slips in a couple of gratuitous anecdotes, and that's it. No analysis, no nothing. It reads as though she wrote it on a train with a short deadline and did her research by cell-phone. Her second piece is marginally better, but her point is a weak one. She is horrified by the crimes against women, yet she wants to pile every insult and irritation ever suffered by woman under the umbrella of human rights violation. In one breathless sentence (p.185) she says "...UN troops were targeting women: `In the streets of Zagreb, UN troops often ask local women how much they cost'". Her whining about merely boorish behavior undermines her credibility and belittles the plight of women who suffered grievously in the wars. MacKinnon is exasperating, yet passionate, but ultimately her pieces fail because of her unsupported allegations and the scattered and distracting nature of her attacks on anything that pops into her head.
Similarly, Susan Brownmiller spends her essay slamming men as warrior animals. So much so that she entirely misses the point that these rapists were not beasts out of control, but were entirely under control and following their leaders' war plans to a tee. Brownmiller is not a scholar of Balkan history with any depth or understanding. She doesn't have Stiglmayer's innovative perceptions of the war. The Brownmiller piece offers no value added, it is mere filler.
Overall the book is excellent. Although, now, five years later, Stiglmayer could well give it another update, in addition to the changes she has made for this English edition. The wars have reached a precarious end, the ICTY war crimes trials are underway. There is another chapter to be added to the book, one can only hope that Stiglmayer will provide it, so that this work can remain fresh for many more years.
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LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN.......2003-01-24
IN THE FIRST OF HER SIX BOOKS, MS. FAIRSTEIN GOES INTO DETAIL ABOUT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, AND HOW IT HAS EVOLVED TO BE MORE RESPONSIVE AND USER-FRIENDLY FOR CRIME VICTIMS. SHE DESCRIBES HER START IN THE NEW YORK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, AND MOVING UP THE RANKS IN AN OFFICE THAT HAD RELATIVELY FEW WOMEN ADAs AT THE TIME. IN 1976, SHE WAS APPOINTED TO HEAD UP ITS SEX CRIMES PROSECUTION UNIT (THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE COUNTRY). OVER THE YEARS SHE HAS SENT MANY RAPISTS TO PRISON. HOWEVER, THRU THE YEARS, HER OFFICE HAS KEPT UP-TO-DATE WITH NEW CRIME FIGHTING TECHNIQUES (SUCH AS DNA AND FORENSIC SCIENCE)IN ITS BATTLE TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS. SHE HAS BEEN VERY FAIR TO ALL PARTIES IN THE HANDLING OF CASES BY HER & HER UNIT OVER THE YEARS. THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OVER THE PAST THREE DECADES.
Highly dubious.......2002-12-06
This is the person who ignored hard evidence pointing to the guilty person in order to convict the Central Park 5. An undeserved reputation - but you can understand why her works of fiction are so good. An unprincipled careerist of the first order, impressively manufactures her reputation. Quite how victims of rape are served by the perpetration of further injustice against others is not explained.
Clearly describes the streamlining of rape cases in Manhatta.......1997-04-17
Linda Fairstein has described the inner workings of the Manhattan Distric Attorney's office regarding rape cases during the 1970's. The laws and procedures have changed a great deal since that time and Fairstein was personally involved in many of the changes. The book is, of course, slanted a bit to favor her office, particularly in its canonization of D.A. Robert Morgenthau, but these attorneys do deserve credit for streamlining the system to handle the victims more sensitively. Fairstein's book would hold any reader with an interest in the law as well as anyone who has suffered from any form of sexual violence. It is the rare account of social change as written by one of its instigators
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This is the first book to describe and analyze the experience of women in African civil wars. A mixture of reportage, testimony and scholarship, the book includes contributions from women in Chad, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan. The political context of these conflicts is outlined in an introduction to each chapter. The book profiles women's responses to war, as combatants as well as victims, and describes the groups women organize in the aftermath. The first book to examine rape and other forms of gendered political violence in African civil wars, this extraordinary volume is also about women taking action for change.
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What Happened to the Women: Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations
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ASIN: 0979077206 |
Book Description
The first volume of the International Center for Transitional Justice's new Advancing Transitional Justice Series.
Published with the support of the International Development Research Centre.
What happens to women whose lives are transformed by human rights violations? What happens to the voices of victimized women once they have their day in court or in front of a truth commission? Women face a double marginalization under authoritarian regimes and during and after violent conflicts. Nonetheless, reparations programs are rarely designed to address the needs of women victims. What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations, argues for the introduction of a gender dimension into reparations programs. The volume explores gender and reparations policies in Guatemala, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Timor-Leste.
Books:
- The Parasite Menace
- The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga
- The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
- The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
- The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
- The Secret of the Soul: Using Out-of-Body Experiences to Understand Our True Nature
- The Shallow Graves of Rwanda
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids Favorite Meals
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