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What Women Do in Wartime

Paperback • 1998 • English • 1. edition

What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa

By Meredeth Turshen, Clotilde Twagiramariya

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About the book

This is the first book to describe and analyze the experience of women in African civil wars. A mixture of reportage, testimony and scholarship, the book includes contributions from women in Chad, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan. The political context of these conflicts is outlined in an introduction to each chapter. The book profiles women's responses to war, as combatants as well as victims, and describes the groups women organize in the aftermath. Examining rape ...Show more

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ISBN

9781856495387

Publisher

Zed Books

Published year

1998

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

What Women Do in Wartime

Format

Paperback

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