The Women’s Review of Books Vol. XXI, No. 12 September 2004 74035 $4.00 I In This Issue We continue our exploration of Women, War, and Peace with articles on women as policy- makers, peace activists, defense industry workers, soldiers. I Carol Burke explains how mili- tary marching chants are used to transform recruits into fighters. p. 6 I Is Bob Woodward a sister? Cynthia Enloe reveals how femi- nists can learn from Plan of Attack. p. 10 I Liza Featherstone looks at tra- ditional gender roles and witty direct-action groups like Code Pink. p. 11 A panel from Jennifer Camper’s comic-review of Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of adolescence in Iran and in exile. p. 8 I In both rebel and government armies, African girl-soldiers are spies, porters, cooks, fighters, and sex slaves. Some join, while others Erasing the lines are pressed into service, says by Ayse Gul Altinay researcher Dyan Mazurana, and all face special problems reintegrat- The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in Cyprus by Cynthia Cockburn. ing into their communities when New York: Zed Books, 2004, 244 pp., $25.00 paper. war is over. p. 21 I pril 24, 2004, was a historic day in the Turkish North and the Greek South. In I Plus a special poetry section troubled history of the Mediterranean April, Greek and Turkish Cypriots were with new work by Eloise Klein A island of Cyprus. More than half a asked to express their opinions about a UN- million Cypriots voted on the future of their driven negotiation document for a reunited Healy, Julia Kasdorf, Maxine island and their lives. The voting came 30 Cyprus, the Annan Plan. Unfortunately, the Kumin, Elizabeth Macklin, and years after the Turkish military intervention results were less than satisfactory for those Gail Mazur. p. 14 in Cyprus, which had followed years of com- longing for a solution: a 65 percent “yes” to munal strife between the Greek majority and the Annan Plan in the Turkish North and a I and more... the Turkish minority in the 1960s and a coup 75 percent “no” in the Greek South. The 30- d’etat by Greek Cypriot extremists associated year-long struggle to demilitarize the island 09> with the Greek military junta in 1974. and normalize relations between Turkish and Ironically called “the Peace Operation” by Greek Cypriots went into a new phase, its the Turkish social-democratic government of success to be determined by the extent to the time, this military intervention, like all which women become a part of it. Because others, resulted in many deaths and disap- so far, women’s position has been one of 74470 74035 03 pearances on both sides, forced relocations, total invisibility. PRINTED IN THE USA and the partition of the island into two: the continued on page 3 The Women’s Review Contents of Books Center for Research on Women Wellesley College 1 Ayse Gul Altinay I The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in Cyprus by Cynthia Cockburn 106 Central Street 4 Ayse Gul Altinay I REACHING ACROSS DIVIDED SOCIETIES: A conversation with Cynthia Cockburn Wellesley, MA 02481 (781) 283-2087/ (888) 283-8044 5 Letters www.wellesley.edu/WomensReview 6 Carol Burke I FROM RECRUIT TO SOLDIER: Military discipline is enforced with marching chants— Volume XXI, No. 12 and their sexist, racist, brutal messages. September 2004 8 Jennifer Camper I Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi EDITOR IN CHIEF: Amy Hoffman [email protected] 10 Cynthia Enloe I Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward PRODUCTION EDITOR: Amanda Nash 11 Liza Featherstone I PINK THONGS AND PATRIARCHY: In protests against the Iraq war, women are using [email protected] the media and popular culture as never before. POETRY AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: 12 Ryn Gluckman, Betsy Hartmann, and Azi Shariatmadar I PRO-WHOSE-LIFE? Ten reasons why militarism Robin Becker is bad for your health ADVERTISING MANAGER: 14 Eloise Klein Healy, Julia Kasdorf, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Macklin, and Gail Mazur I Poetry, War, and Peace Anita D. McClellan [email protected] 16 Kerryn Higgs I An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy; The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. Interviews by David Barsamian OFFICE MANAGER: Nancy Wechsler [email protected] 17 Suzanne Ruta I A LIFE OF RESISTANCE: Ethnographer and concentration camp survivor Germaine Tillion is little known in the US but a hero in France for her lifelong opposition to violence and torture. STUDENT WORKER: Bethany Towne Harriet Malinowitz I The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the 19 EDITORIAL MISSION: To give writ- Media That Love Them by Amy Goodman with David Goodman ing by and about women the serious crit- ical attention it deserves. We seek to rep- 20 Harriet Malinowitz I THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD: A conversation with independent journalist resent the widest possible range of fem- Amy Goodman inist perspectives both in the books we 21 Lisa London I Let Me Go by Helga Schneider choose to review and in the content of the reviews themselves. 21 Dyan Mazurana I WHERE ARE THE GIRLS? 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AYSE GUL ALTINAY teaches anthropology, cultural, and gender studies at including the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. POSTMASTER: send address correc- Sabanci University, Turkey. Her book The Myth of the Military-Nation: LISA LONDON is the publisher of Never Die Books, a new publishing tions to The Women’s Review of Books, Militarism, Gender, and Education in Turkey is forthcoming. company based in New York, NY. Center for Research on Women, CAROL BURKE is an associate professor at the University of California at ELIZABETH MACKLIN is the author most recently of “You’ve Just Been Irvine. She is the author of Vision Narratives of Women in Prison. Told.” She is at work on a third collection of poems. Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, JENNIFER CAMPER’s books include Rude Girls and Dangerous Women HARRIET MALINOWITZ, professor of English at Long Island Wellesley, MA 02481. and subGURLZ. Her work can be found in many newspapers, magazines, University is co-coordinator of The 1984+20 Project—a nationwide reading and comic books. of Orwell’s novel. For information on participating, see Rhetoricians for The Women’s Review of Books is a project CYNTHIA ENLOE is a research professor at Clark University and author Peace (www.rhetoriciansforpeace.org) and the National Council of Teachers of the Wellesley Centers for Women. of several books, including Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing of English (http://www.ncte.org/announce/116449.htm). The Women’s Review is distributed by Women’s Lives. Her newest book is The Curious Feminist. GAIL MAZUR is author of five books of poetry, including Nightfire and They LIZA FEATHERSTONE is a contributing editor at The Nation magazine. Can’t Take That Away from Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. Ingram, Nashville, TN. All other distri- She is the author of the forthcoming Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle DYAN MAZURANA is a senior research scholar at the Feinstein bution is handled directly by The for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart. International Famine Center, Tufts University. She is the author of numerous Women’s Review. RYN GLUCKMAN is the coordinator of the population and development books and articles on the experiences of girls and women during and after FUNDING PRO- program at Hampshire College and serves on the board of Children of armed conflict. She works primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contents of The VIDED IN PART BY Lesbians and Gays Everywhere. MARTHA NORKUNAS heads the Interpreting the Texas Past project. Women’s Review of Books are BETSY HARTMANN is director of the population and development She is the author of The Politics of Public Memory (1993) and Monuments and copyright © 2004.