| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The resistance of Francesca Tonetti in German-occupied Venice 1943-1945 -- Ank Faber-Chabot -- Hildegard Jaschok's testimony -- Mau Mau women -- Women and conflict in Burma's borderlands -- Rebuilding family, body and soul -- Rwandan women at war -- Women war correspondents in 2013 -- Talking gender, war and security at NATO -- Military masculinities and counter-insurgency theory and practice in Afghanistan |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 15, 2016) |
| Subject |
Women and war.
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Women -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Women
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Women and war
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ardener, Shirley, editor.
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Armitage-Woodward, Fiona, editor
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Sciama, Lidia Dina, editor
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| ISBN |
9781785330148 |
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1785330144 |
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1785330136 |
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9781785330131 |
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9781785338250 |
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1785338250 |
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