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Author Riebnitzsky, Anne-Cathrine, 1974-

Title The women's war : a female soldier's account of her time in Afghanistan / Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky ; translated from Danish by Martin Aitken
Published New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Nargiss and The Guns -- Part 1 -- 1 From home To helmand -- 2 The First Patrol -- 3 TaLiban Land -- 4 The Desert Sea -- 5 The GirLs' Room -- 6 TWo Women of Gereshk -- 7 Suicide and Poverty -- 8 The Widow of Lashkar Gah -- 9 The Taliban Project -- 10 The Day We Became Mortal -- 11 Gary's Bomb Offi ce -- 12 In the Doghouse -- 13 The Second Women's Shura -- 14 GLass Beads and Arms From Iran -- 15 Women and the LaW -- 16 Unfinished Business -- 17 The Third Shura -- 18 Called Home -- 19 Hercules 210 To Bastion -- 20 Goodbye, Nargiss -- 21 The Last Patrol
22 Thank the Mothers -- Part 2 -- 23 Through the Glass Doors -- 24 Don't Rock the Boat -- 25 Men of the Future -- 26 Reunion -- 27 Radio in a Box -- 28 A Helping Hand -- 29 The Clinic -- 30 Gary and the Governor -- 31 The Town at the Crossing -- 32 The Road to Kandahar -- 33 Journalists on the Warpath -- 34 Seeds of Terror -- 35 Spinning in a Burka -- 36 The Money Game -- 37 The Mayor and the Journalist -- 38 Democracy and Fear -- 39 All Change -- 40 A Prayer for Gulaley -- 41 Helmand and Home -- About the Author and the Translator
Summary A thrilling first-hand account of the Afghan War against the Taliban from the perspective of local women
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2021)
Subject Riebnitzsky, Anne-Cathrine, 1974-
Women -- Abuse of -- Afghanistan
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions
Women's rights -- Afghanistan
Women -- Abuse of.
Women -- Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Afghanistan.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789353886318
9353886317