{"product_id":"wars-other-voices-miriam-cooke-9780815603771","title":"War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the assumption that men write of war, women of the hearth. The Lebanese war has seen the publication of many more works of fiction by women than by men. Miriam Cooke has termed these women the Beirut Decentrists, as they are decentered or excluded from both literary canon and social discourse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough they may not share religious or political affiliation, they do share a perspective which holds them together. Cooke traces the transformation in consciousness that has taken place among women who observed and recorded the progress towards chaos in Lebanon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the so-called \"two year\" war of 1975-76 little comment was made about those (usually men in search of economic security) who left the saturnalia of violence, but with time attitudes changed. Women became aware that they had remained out of a sense of responsibility for others and that they had survived. Consciousness of survival was catalytic: the Beirut Decentrists began to describe a society that had gone beyond the masculinization normal in most wars and achieved an almost unprecedented feminization. Emigration, the expected behavior for men before 1975, became the sin qua non for Lebanese citizenship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe writings of the Beirut Decentists offer hope of an escape from the anarchy. If men and women could espouse the Lebanese women's sense of responsibility, the energy that had fueled the unrelenting savagery could be turned to reconstruction. But that was before the invasion of 1982.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miriam Cooke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815603770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815603771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Miriam Cooke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986724487423,"sku":"9780815603771","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b8d0aade-149a-4b68-83fb-4924a6292187.jpg?v=1683284855","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wars-other-voices-miriam-cooke-9780815603771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}