women and peace

Profiles two compelling portraits of the Krocs: Ray, the struggling salesman with a vision that later became the fast food chain, McDonald's, and Joan, the philanthrop ist, activist, and proponent of the peace movement who later became his wife.

Describes women's role in history, focusing on women's effort in maintaining world peace.

The author offers a personal account of the encampment at Greenham Common, England where a group of women had gathered to protest against the Cruise Missle base located there.

Among the authors: Enheduanna, Emma Goldman, Rosa Luxemburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Martha Gellhorn, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Christa Wolf, Rosalie Bertell, Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Tsai Wen-Ji, Al-Khansa, Diodata Saluzzo, Louisa May Alcott, Simone de Beauvoir, Ida Wells Barnett, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Isabel Allende, Sappho, Jane Addams, and others.

Translates Aristophanes' 411 B.C. play "Lysistrata, " in which an Athenian woman leads many fellow Greek wives in a sex strike until their husbands stop warring with each other.

Presents the story of Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, two women who began the Northern Ireland peace movement in the 1970s in hopes of ending the violence and political upheavals in their country.