Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and provisions in the face of hostile soldiers, and Kikuyu women involved in the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. A woman displaced from Silesia recalls fleeing with children across war-torn Germany, and women caught up in conflicts in Burma and in Rwanda share their tales. War’s aftermath can be traumatic, as shown by journalists in Libya and by a midwife on the Cambodian border who helps refugees to give birth and regain hope. Finally, British women on active service in Afghanistan and at NATO headquarters also speak.
Table of Content
Introduction: Women’s Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences of War across Continents: An Introduction
Shirley Ardener
Chapter 1. The Resistance of Francesca Tonetti in German-Occupied Venice 1943-1945
Lidia Dina Sciama
Chapter 2. Ank Faber-Chabot, A Dutchwoman who Sheltered Jews in World War II
Marieke Faber Clarke
Chapter 3. Hildegard Jaschok’s Testimony: Expulsion and Hope in World War II
Maria Jaschok
Chapter 4. Mau Mau Women: Sixty Years Later
Tabitha Kanogo
Chapter 5. Women and Conflict in Burma’s Borderlands
Mandy Sadan
Chapter 6. Rebuilding Family, Body and Soul: New Life on the Cambodian Border
Janette Davies
Chapter 7. Rwandan Women at War: Fighting for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (1990-1994)
Hannah Spens-Black
Chapter 8. Women War Correspondents in 2013
Glenda Cooper
Chapter 9. Talking Gender, War & Security at NATO
Matthew Hurley
Chapter 10. Military Masculinities and Counterinsurgency Theory in Afghanistan: An Uneasy Relationship?
Rachel Grimes
About the author
Lidia D. Sciama is a Research Associate of the Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and a former Director of Oxford’s International Gender Studies Centre, where she is currently a Senior Research Associate. She has conducted long-term research in Italy and England with a focus on women’s crafts, city life, narrative, memory and relations between anthropology and literature. Among her publications are A Venetian Island. Environment, History and Change in Burano (Berghahn Books 2003) and Humour, Comedy and Laughter (Berghahn Books, 2016).
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