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Women’s Voices on the Pacific: The International Pacific Policy Congress Lenora Foerstel, editor Library of Congress Catalog Number HQ1236.P16157 160 pages Photos Publication date May 1, 1991 Library binding $28.95 ISBN 0-944624-13-8 or ISBN-13 9780944624135 Paperback $14.95 ISBN 0-944624-14-6 or ISBN-13 9780944624142
In the opening weeks of 1991, members of Women for Mutual Security met on the South Pacific Island of Vanuatu to discuss the crisis-level intrusion of the industrialized West into the South Pacific, and to organize women in the Philippines to oppose the continuation of U.S. military bases there. These essays are the reports of their work. They promote a feminist agenda for world policies. The congress was interrupted by the outbreak of the American war against Iraq. The Congress immediately dispatched a delegation to war ravaged Iraq to include women there in the discussion. Includes prominent women leaders from the South Pacific as well as from the East and West.
Lenora Foerstel began her career as an anthropologist with extended field work with Dr. Margaret Mead in Papua New Guinea. She has written numerous articles, produced several films, and co-authored a book, Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire, and The South Pacific (Temple University Press). She was a member of the 1953 American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Manus Island, led by Dr. Margaret Mead. She is the North American Coordinator for Women for Mutual Security and has served as a delegate to the First International Conference on Women, Peace, and the Environment held in Moscow in 1989. More recently she coordinated and convened the International Pacific Policy Congress in Vanuatu. For more than thirty years, she was professor of Ethnohistory at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.
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