A review by yeller
Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence by Leah Fritz, Jane Meyerding, Donna Landerman, Helen Michalowski, Barbara Deming, Marion Bromley, Sally Miller Gearhart, Alice Walker, Ann Davidon, Cynthia Washington, Constantina Salamone, Margaret Bishop, Jo Vellacott, Barbara Zanotti, Caroline Wildflower, Jay Bird, Lynne Shivers, Paula Rayman, Charlotte Marchant, Karia Jay, Sue Dove Gambill, Rosemarie Freeney-Harding, Karen Malpede, Holly Near, Betsy Wright, Ellen Bass, Cynthia Adcock, Lisa Leghorn, Rachel Bedard, Meg Bowman, Catherine Reid, Karen Lindsey, Erika Duncan, Valerie Miner, Barbara Reynolds, Joan Cavanagh, Eleanora Patterson, Grace Paley, Pam McAllister, Judy Costello, Donna Warnock, Susan Kling, Linda Hogan, Mab Segrest, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Juanita Nelson, Priscilla Prutzman, Margaret Hope Bacon, Pat James, Kathy Bickmore

4.0

While this book began to drag for me, largely because I had to put it on hold for months while I finished school, I am glad I read it. It's the first real feminist writing I've encountered, and it read as the early writings of the third wave of feminism. There are strong notes of intersectionality and working for multiple causes in here. Really, it made me want to read a lot more feminist theory than I already have.

I'm also massively interested in nonviolence, and one of the essays I found particularly interesting was the nonviolence of self-defense. It was interesting to read some of these women coming to terms with what nonviolence is and it's role in society and in the feminist movement.