Bush wives and girl soldiers
Subtitle: women's lives through war and peace in Sierra Leone
By: Chris Coulter.
Series: Cornell paperbacks; Cornell paperbacks
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780801447822; 9780801475122
Subjects: Women and war -- Sierra Leone; Women -- Crimes against -- Sierra Leone; Rural women -- Sierra Leone -- Social conditions; Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Women; Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Participation, Female
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: A decade of war; centuries of uncertainty --; title: Gendered lives in rural Sierra Leone --; title: Abduction and everyday rebel life --; title: From rape victims to female fighters --; title: Reconciliation or revenge --; title: Surviving the postwar economy --; title: Coming home : domesticating the bush.