What women do in wartime
Subtitle: gender and conflict in Africa
By: edited by Meredeth Turshen & Clotilde Twagiramariya.
Contributors: Turshen, Meredeth, 1938-; Twagiramariya, Clotilde.
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Women -- Crimes against -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Women and war -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Women in war -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Women refugees -- Crimes against -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Women's war stories / Meredeth Turshen; title: South African women demand the truth / Beth Goldblatt and Sheila Meintjes; title: Women and violence in KwaZulu/Natal; title: Ashnie Padarath; title: Mozambican women experiencing violence / Alcinda António de Abreu; title: Attack with a friendly weapon / Asma Abdel Halim; title: 'Favours' to give and 'consenting' victims : the sexual politics of survival in Rwanda / Clotilde Twagiramariya and Meredeth Turshen; title: Women denounce their treatment in Chad / Women's Commission of the Human Rights League of Chad & the editors; title: Hundreds of victims silently grieving / Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL) & the editors; title: We left our shoes behind / Teckla Shikola; title: The militarization of Africa / Daniel Volman.