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"This book rings with whispered knowing and sings aloud of struggle and striving in stories that did not die, and truths that will not be erased, because they are told here.-- ""Tracey Jean Boisseau, Purdue University"""

This book and its stories of Lebanese women's resistance, survival, and destruction amid the violence, chaos, and deprivations of war changes what we think we already know about women as workers, victims, prisoners, and casualties as well as survivors, fighters, creators, leaders, and heroines. These are 'better stories' not because they end happily or even because they focus on women's agency. They are 'better stories' than the usual histories we write of war because they make the war real to those of us outside this history, this time, this place. They are stories that refuse the blinkered tall tales we tell ourselves, when we speak at all of war. They serve up a world rent by violence in ways that do not allow us to hide behind easy answers and platitudes about women in war. This book rings with whispered knowing and sings aloud of struggle and striving in stories that did not die, and truths that will not be erased, because they are told here.--Tracey Jean Boisseau, Associate Professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Purdue University

"This book and its stories of Lebanese women's resistance, survival, and destruction amid the violence, chaos, and deprivations of war changes what we think we already know about women as workers, victims, prisoners, and casualties as well as survivors, fighters, creators, leaders, and heroines. These are ""better stories"" not because they end happily or even because they focus on women's agency. They are ""better stories"" than the usual histories we write of war because they make the war real to those of us outside this history, this time, this place. They are stories that refuse the blinkered tall tales we tell ourselves, when we speak at all of war. They serve up a world rent by violence in ways that do not allow us to hide behind easy answers and platitudes about women in war. This book rings with whispered knowing and sings aloud of struggle and striving in stories that did not die, and truths that will not be erased, because they are told here.--Tracey Jean Boisseau, Associate Professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Purdue University"

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Malek Abisaab is associate professor of history at McGill University. He is the author of Militant Women of a Fragile Nation. He coedited Women’s War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women’s Labor, and the Creative Arts with Michelle Hartman. Michelle Hartman is professor of Arabic literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. She is the author of Breaking Broken English: Black-Arab Solidarities and the Politics of Language and Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: : The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon, both published by Syracuse University Press.

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