No Stick nor Trace (excerpt)
Review by Gabriele Annan
London Review of Books
March 3, 2005

Most of [the women] Hunt interviewed were professional women: teachers, academics, journalists, engineers, an IT specialist, a dermatologist, an architect, social workers, entrepreneurs, an orthodontist, an ambassador, politicians, accountants. Some came from mixed race (and faith) families; others had married men of a different ethnic group. A number worked for charitable organistions: anything from helping disabled children to promoting multi-ethnic cooperation. All of them spoke in favour of peace among the different races, and most of them thought that women would have handled the situations that led to war better than men could or did...