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Shirley (Hrsg.) Ardener

War and Women across Continents

Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Armitage-Woodward, Fiona (Hrsg.) / Sciama, Lidia D. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-78533-014-8
  • EAN: 9781785330148
  • Produktnummer: 20454054
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 212 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'119 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Shirley Ardener, has carried out many years anthropological fieldwork in Nigeria and in Cameroon where she is still involved with the National Anglophone Archives in Buea which she and her husband Edwin set up. She was the Founding Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women (1983-1997) renamed the International Gender Studies at Lady Margaret Hall Oxford University of which she is currently a Research Associate, and a Research Associate of the Institute of Social Anthropology at Oxford. She works on gender, microcredit, nudity, and humour. Books include Swedish Ventures in Cameroon (2002) and Changing Sex and Bending Gender (ed. 2005).

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