War and Women Across Continents: Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785338250 ISBN 13: 9781785338250

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Páginas: 214 Géneros: Sinopsis: Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and provisions in the face of hostile soldiers, and Kikuyu women involved in the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. A woman displaced from Silesia recalls fleeing with children across war-torn Germany, and women caught up in conflicts in Burma and in Rwanda share their tales. War',s aftermath can be traumatic, as shown by journalists in Libya and by a midwife on the Cambodian border who helps refugees to give birth and regain hope. Finally, British women on active service in Afghanistan and at NATO headquarters also speak._,

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"Interesting and timely. Using different research methods to arrive at the story of women involved in war and conflicts adds value to existing feminist research methods. The academic, and especially feminist, readership will benefit from this volume." * Nahla Abdo, Carleton University

Reseña del editor:

Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and provisions in the face of hostile soldiers, and Kikuyu women involved in the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. A woman displaced from Silesia recalls fleeing with children across war-torn Germany, and women caught up in conflicts in Burma and in Rwanda share their tales. War's aftermath can be traumatic, as shown by journalists in Libya and by a midwife on the Cambodian border who helps refugees to give birth and regain hope. Finally, British women on active service in Afghanistan and at NATO headquarters also speak.

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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1785338250
• ISBN 13: 9781785338250
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214
• Herausgeber: Ardener Shirley, Armitage-Woodward Fiona, Sciama Lidia D