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Writings by more than 150 women, including renowned poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, activists, as well as ordinary women with first-hand experience of armed conflict as survivors, refugees, rape victims, nurses, and soldiers. Spanning the globe and traversing more than two centuries, the pieces in this compelling collection range from an ancient verse by Sappho to testimony by Afghan women and poems about the impact of September 11, 2001. Some of the bigger names you might recognize include Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marguerite Duras, Barbara Ehrenreich, Emma Goldman, Nadine Gordimer, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, Muriel Rukeyser, Vandana Shiva, Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf, and Daisy Zamora.
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