Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers : : Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone /

Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers : : Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone / / Chris Coulter.

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During the war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Coulter, Chris,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 10 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Decade of War- Centuries of Uncertainty
  • 2. Gendered Lives in Rural Sierra Leone
  • 3. Abduction and Everyday Rebel Life
  • 4. From Rape Victims to Female Fighters
  • 5. Reconciliation or Revenge
  • 6. Surviving the Postwar Economy
  • 7. Coming Home - Domesticating the Bush
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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