War and Women across Continents

Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-825-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Sundanese, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ardener, Shirley

Armitage-Woodward, Fiona

Sciama, Lidia D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Women’s Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences of War across Continents: An Introduction

Shirley Ardener

Chapter 1. The Resistance of Francesca Tonetti in German-Occupied Venice 1943-1945

Lidia Dina Sciama

Chapter 2. Ank Faber-Chabot, A Dutchwoman who Sheltered Jews in World War II

Marieke Faber Clarke

Chapter 3. Hildegard Jaschok’s Testimony: Expulsion and Hope in World War II

Maria Jaschok

Chapter 4. Mau Mau Women: Sixty Years Later

Tabitha Kanogo

Chapter 5. Women and Conflict in Burma’s Borderlands

Mandy Sadan

Chapter 6. Rebuilding Family, Body and Soul: New Life on the Cambodian Border

Janette Davies

Chapter 7. Rwandan Women at War: Fighting for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (1990-1994)

Hannah Spens-Black

Chapter 8. Women War Correspondents in 2013

Glenda Cooper

Chapter 9. Talking Gender, War & Security at NATO

Matthew Hurley

Chapter 10. Military Masculinities and Counterinsurgency Theory in Afghanistan: An Uneasy Relationship?

Rachel Grimes

Über Autor(innen)

Sciama, Lidia D.
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).

Armitage-Woodward, Fiona
Fiona Armitage-Woodward has held various teaching and research posts, including at Oxfam. She was a founding member of the Swaziland Society (1991). Her publications include contributions to Focus on Swaziland, which she has edited, and "Imitating Ethnicity: Land, Territoriality and Identity in a Swazi Christian Church" in Land and Territoriality, ed., Michael Saltman (2002).

Ardener, Shirley
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).

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).