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African women under fire : literary discourses in war and conflict / / edited by Pauline Ada Uwakweh
| African women under fire : literary discourses in war and conflict / / edited by Pauline Ada Uwakweh |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Disciplina | 303.6082 |
| Soggetto topico | Women and war - Africa |
| ISBN | 1-4985-2919-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Female, victim, agent: African women in war and conflict. Introduction: exploring African women and the war experience: a critical update / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- At the center, taking charge: disruptive discourse and female agency in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a yellow sun / by Jessie Sagawa -- An attempt at inclusion: reading the war theme in black Zimbabwean women texts / by Tendai Mangena -- The female body as locus for national trauma in the fiction of Yvonne Vera / by Melissa R. Root -- Fanta Nacro's Night of truth: the journey to the end of the night / by P. Julie Papaioannou -- Resilient strategies and reconstruction in Leonora Miano's literary writing / by Paul N. Touré -- Trauma, reintegration, healing: transcending the aftermath of wars and conflicts. Memoir versus fiction: narrating trauma in Girl soldier: a story of hope for Northern Uganda's children and thirty girls / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- "I just wanted to forget it all. but it was impossible:" Umutesi and the politics of testimony in surviving the slaughter: the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire / by Emilie Diouf -- Victims' narratives versus perpetrators testimonies: understanding violence against women in armed conflicts in Africa / by Moussa Issifou -- Testimony as text: "performative vulnerability" and the limits of legalistic approaches to refugee protection / by Nanjala Nyabola. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792744503321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African women under fire : literary discourses in war and conflict / / edited by Pauline Ada Uwakweh
| African women under fire : literary discourses in war and conflict / / edited by Pauline Ada Uwakweh |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Disciplina | 303.6082 |
| Soggetto topico | Women and war - Africa |
| ISBN | 1-4985-2919-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Female, victim, agent: African women in war and conflict. Introduction: exploring African women and the war experience: a critical update / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- At the center, taking charge: disruptive discourse and female agency in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a yellow sun / by Jessie Sagawa -- An attempt at inclusion: reading the war theme in black Zimbabwean women texts / by Tendai Mangena -- The female body as locus for national trauma in the fiction of Yvonne Vera / by Melissa R. Root -- Fanta Nacro's Night of truth: the journey to the end of the night / by P. Julie Papaioannou -- Resilient strategies and reconstruction in Leonora Miano's literary writing / by Paul N. Touré -- Trauma, reintegration, healing: transcending the aftermath of wars and conflicts. Memoir versus fiction: narrating trauma in Girl soldier: a story of hope for Northern Uganda's children and thirty girls / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- "I just wanted to forget it all. but it was impossible:" Umutesi and the politics of testimony in surviving the slaughter: the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire / by Emilie Diouf -- Victims' narratives versus perpetrators testimonies: understanding violence against women in armed conflicts in Africa / by Moussa Issifou -- Testimony as text: "performative vulnerability" and the limits of legalistic approaches to refugee protection / by Nanjala Nyabola. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811412503321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gendered wars, gendered memories : feminist conversations on war, genocide and political violence / / edited by Ayse Gul Altinay, Andrea Peto
| Gendered wars, gendered memories : feminist conversations on war, genocide and political violence / / edited by Ayse Gul Altinay, Andrea Peto |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.6082 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AltÄłnayAyse Gul <1971->
PetoAndrea |
| Collana | Feminist Imagination - Europe and Beyond |
| Soggetto topico |
Women and war
Women - Violence against Rape as a weapon of war Feminism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-317-12967-9
1-315-58422-0 1-317-12966-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Cynthia Enloe; Introduction: Uncomfortable Connections: Gender, Memory, War; PART I SEXUAL VIOLENCE: SILENCE, NARRATION, RESISTANCE; Commentary; 1 The Historicity of Denial: Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the War of Annihilation, 1941-1945; 2 Between Silence and Narration: European and Asian Women on War Brutalities in Japanese-Occupied Territories
3 The Female and Political Body in Pain: Sexual Torture and Gendered Trauma during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967-1974)4 Silencing Sexual Violence and Vulnerability: Women's Narratives of Incarceration during the 1980-1983 Military Junta in Turkey; PART II GENDERING MEMORIES OF WAR, SOLDIERING AND RESISTANCE; Commentary: Women's Memories of Soldiering: An Intersectionality Perspective; 5 Militarizing the Nation: Gender Politics of the Warsaw Uprising; 6 The Italian Civil War in the Memoirs of Female Fascist Soldiers 7 "We Left Our Skirts to Men as We Went to the Front": The Participation of Abkhazian Women from Turkey in the Abkhazian War8 Militarized US Women from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Citizenship, Homelessness, and the Construction of Public Memory in a Time of War; PART III FICTIONALIZING AND VISUALIZING GENDERED MEMORIES; Commentary: Unsettling Accounts: Fictionalizing and Visualizing Memories of War; 9 Women's Memory of the Spanish Civil War: The Power of Words; 10 Forgotten Perpetrators: Photographs of Female Perpetrators after WWII 14 Women Living and Re-living Armed Conflict: Exploring a Methodology for Spanning Time and PlaceIndex |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910476765403321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why women rebel : understanding women's participation in armed rebel groups / / Alexis Leanna Henshaw
| Why women rebel : understanding women's participation in armed rebel groups / / Alexis Leanna Henshaw |
| Autore | Henshaw Alexis Leanna |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (123 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 303.6082 |
| Collana | Routledge studies in gender and global politics |
| Soggetto topico |
Women and war
Revolutions Women revolutionaries |
| ISBN |
1-315-45661-3
1-315-45659-1 1-315-45660-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. A combatant by any other name : assessing what women do in war -- 3. Comparing mainstream and feminist theories on rebellion -- 4. Where women rebel : a cross-national analysis of women's participation in armed rebel groups -- 5. Why women rebel : an analysis of women's participation in rank-and-file roles -- 6. Where women lead : gender and leadership in armed rebel groups -- 7. Summary and conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155115703321 |
Henshaw Alexis Leanna
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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