Untertitel:: Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences
Verlag:: BERGHAHN BOOKS
Erschienen:: 01.02.2016
Seitenanzahl:: 212
ISBN:: 1785330144
EAN:: 9781785330148
Sprache:: Englisch
Format:: EPUB
Schutz:: Adobe-DRM

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War and Women across Continents

<p> 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.</p>