Natasha Zaretsky

Womb fantasies: subjective architecture in postmodern literature, cinema, and art

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Until the last man comes home: POWs, MIAs, and the unending Vietnam War

with a meticulous attention to documentary detail. (The notes and bibliography are excellent.) Only once or twice did I wish he had widened his range somewhat. There are only passing mentions of Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker. She had no formal affiliation with the FOR, which was mainly Protestant, and in fact sometimes hostile to the Catholic establishment, but it would have been illuminating to compare the two groups. I also would have liked a few pages on David Dellinger. He, too, was not a FOR activist, but he became a close associate of Muste’s and Martin Luther King’s and shared the Christian pacifist worldview. It is he, I am quite sure, who is portrayed at the center of the photograph on the dust jacket, the “Union Eight” (Union Theological Seminarians who refused the draft during World War II) under arrest in a paddy wagon or jail cell; Dellinger is the only one smiling. (The caption is little help.) There are books by and about Dellinger, to be sure (as well as Dorothy Day), but it would have been helpful to trace his connections with the major FOR figures and their milieu. For he was to emerge as the indispensable organizer of the huge anti-war marches in New York and Washington from 1965 to 1973, not to mention the Chicago demonstration of 1968. Kosek’s book cannot cover everything, of course, and it is remarkable how much it does deal with in 250 pages. It stops at the verge of the 1960s. That I wanted it to go on and take in more subjects is a token of praise more than criticism. It tells a story crucial to understanding the main social movements of the 1960s in the USA, and beyond these to understanding the burgeoning of nonviolent (but no longer Christian pacifist) movements throughout the world during the last 50 years.