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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785338250 ISBN 13: 9781785338250

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2018

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Lidia D. Sciama is a Research Associate of the Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and a former Director of Oxford's International Gender Studies Centre, where she is currently a Senior Research Associate. She has conducted long-term research in Italy and England with a focus on women's crafts, city life, narrative, memory and relations between anthropology and literature. Among her publications are A Venetian Island. Environment, History and Change in Burano (Berghahn Books 2003) and Humour, Comedy and Laughter (Berghahn Books, 2016).

Review:

"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

"I enjoyed reading this book and admired its range across time and space. The variety of cases included is its main strength." · Linda McDowell, University of Oxford

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1785338250
• ISBN 13: 9781785338250
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Ardener Shirley, Armitage-Woodward Fiona, Sciama Lidia D.