autobiographical and biographical experiences
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ardener, Shirley > (ed.)
- Creator
- Armitage-Woodward, Fiona > (ed.)
- Creator
- Sciama, Lidia Dina > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 1E 2016
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, tweede wereldoorlog, dagelijks leven, joodse vrouwen, journalisten, veiligheid, gender, NAVO, biografische gegevens, Nederland, Italië, Kenia, Burma, Cambodja, Rwanda, Afghanistan, bundel
- Description
- Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse 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. Journalists in Libya and a midwive on the Cambodian border, and British women on active service in Afghanistan and at NATO headquarters also speak. Contents: Introduction: Women’s autobiographical and biographical experiences of war across continents: an introduction / Shirley Ardener: 1. The resistance of Francesca Tonetti in German-occupied Venice 1943-1945 / Lidia Dina Sciama: 2. Ank Faber-Chabot, A Dutchwoman who sheltered jews in World War II / Marieke Faber Clarke: 3. Hildegard Jaschok’s testimony: expulsion and hope in World War II / Maria Jaschok: 4. Mau Mau women: sixty years later / Tabitha Kanogo: 5. Women and conflict in Burma’s borderlands / Mandy Sadan: 6. Rebuilding family, body and soul: new life on the Cambodian border / Janette Davies: 7. Rwandan women at war: fighting for the Rwandan patriotic front (1990-1994) / Hannah Spens-Black: 8. Women war correspondents in 2013 / Glenda Cooper: 9. Talking gender, war & security at NATO / Matthew Hurley: 10. Military masculinities and counterinsurgency theory in Afghanistan: an uneasy relationship / Rachel Grimes