Women and War in Lebanon edited by Lamia Rustum Shehadeh.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[335]-[350]) and index. Contents: Introduction -- The war in Lebanon -- Women before the war -- Women in the public sphere / Lamia Rustum Shedadeh -- Mapping peace / Miriam Cooke -- A panorama of Lebanese women writers, 1975-1995 / Mona Takieddine Amyuni -- Lebanon mythologized or Lebanon deconstructed: two narratives of national consciousness / Elise Salem Manganaro -- Art, the chemistry of life / Lamia Rustum Shedadeh -- Women in the Lebanese militias / Lamia Rustum Shedadeh -- Lebanese Shi'i women and Islamism: a response to war / Maria Holt -- Maman Aida, a Lebanese godmother of the combatants: fighting without arms / Kari H. Karam� -- From gunpowder to incense / Jocelyn Khweiri -- Profiles of foreign women in Lebanon during the Civil War / Mary Bentley Abu Saba -- War trauma and women: predisposition and vulnerability to adverse psychological health outcomes / Leila Farhood -- Women and the Lebanon wars: depression and post-traumatic stress disorder / Elie G. Karam -- Substance use and abuse: the Lebanese female and the Lebanon wars / P. Yabroudi, ... [et al.] -- A war of survival.