War and Women across Continents : : Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences / / ed. by Lidia D. Sciama, Fiona Armitage-Woodward, Shirley Ardener.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Ardener, Shirley,; Clarke, Marieke Faber,; Cooper, Glenda,; Davies, Janette,; Grimes, Rachel,; Hurley, Matthew,; Jaschok, Maria,; Kanogo, Tabitha,; Sadan, Mandy,; Sciama, Lidia Dina,; Spens-Black, Hannah,
• HerausgeberIn: Ardener, Shirley,; Armitage-Woodward, Fiona,; Sciama, Lidia D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Women’s Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences of War across Continents: An Introduction -- 1 The Resistance of Francesca Tonetti in German-Occupied Venice 1943–1945 -- 2 Ank Faber-Chabot: A Dutchwoman who Sheltered Jews in the Second World War -- 3 Hildegard Jaschok’s Testimony: Expulsion and Hope in the Second World War -- 4 Mau Mau Women: Sixty Years Later -- 5 Women and Conflict in Burma’s Borderlands -- 6 Rebuilding Family, Body and Soul: New Life on the Cambodian Border -- 7 Rwandan Women at War: Fighting for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (1990–1994) -- 8 Women War Correspondents in 2013 -- 9 Talking Gender, War and Security at NATO -- 10 Military Masculinities and Counter-insurgency Theory and Practice in Afghanistan: An Uneasy Relationship? -- Index