LEADER 03989nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910811126103321 005 20230207214044.0 010 $a0-8014-7512-0 010 $a0-8014-5848-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801458484 035 $a(CKB)2670000000078997 035 $a(OCoLC)726824287 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457647 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483144 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11300072 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483144 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528757 035 $a(PQKB)11418637 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138025 035 $a(DE-B1597)481750 035 $a(OCoLC)984649128 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801458484 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138025 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457647 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL760186 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000078997 100 $a20090313d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBush wives and girl soldiers$b[electronic resource] $ewomen's lives through war and peace in Sierra Leone /$fChris Coulter 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 225 1 $aCornell paperbacks 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-336-28900-7 311 0 $a0-8014-4782-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. A Decade of War- Centuries of Uncertainty --$t2. Gendered Lives in Rural Sierra Leone --$t3. Abduction and Everyday Rebel Life --$t4. From Rape Victims to Female Fighters --$t5. Reconciliation or Revenge --$t6. Surviving the Postwar Economy --$t7. Coming Home - Domesticating the Bush --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aDuring the war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone. When these girls and women returned to their home villages after the cessation of hostilities, their families and peers viewed them with skepticism and fear, while humanitarian organizations saw them primarily as victims. Neither view was particularly helpful in helping them resume normal lives after the war. Offering lessons for policymakers, practitioners, and activists, Coulter shows how prevailing notions of gender, both in home communities and among NGO workers, led, for instance, to women who had taken part in armed conflict being bypassed in the demilitarization and demobilization processes carried out by the international community in the wake of the war. Many of these women found it extremely difficult to return to their families, and, without institutional support, some were forced to turn to prostitution to eke out a living. Coulter weaves several themes through the work, including the nature of gender roles in war, livelihood options in war and peace, and how war and postwar experiences affect social and kinship relations. 410 0$aCornell paperbacks. 606 $aWomen and war$zSierra Leone 606 $aWomen$xCrimes against$zSierra Leone 606 $aRural women$zSierra Leone$xSocial conditions 607 $aSierra Leone$xHistory$yCivil War, 1991-2002$xWomen 607 $aSierra Leone$xHistory$yCivil War, 1991-2002$xParticipation, Female 615 0$aWomen and war 615 0$aWomen$xCrimes against 615 0$aRural women$xSocial conditions. 676 $a966.404 700 $aCoulter$b Chris$f1969-$0703642 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811126103321 996 $aBush wives and girl soldiers$91355814 997 $aUNINA