Bush wives and girl soldiers
Subtitle: women's lives through war and peace in Sierra Leone
By: Chris Coulter.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
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 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.