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1 online resource (188 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: The New Feminist International Relations; 1. Introduction: Conjugal Order and Insecurity Post-Conflict; 2. The History of Sex, Order, and Conflict in Sierra Leone; 3. Defining Soldiers; 4. Empowerment Boom or Bust? Assessing Women's Post-Armed Conflict Empowerment Initiatives; 5. Securitization and Desecuritization: Female Soldiers and the Reconstruction of Women; 6. Securitizing Sex? Rethinking Wartime Sexual Violence; 7. Loving Your Enemy: Rape, Sex, Childbirth, and Politics Post-Armed Conflict |
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8. Conclusion: Displacing War Mythology and Developmental LogicNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; About the Author |
| Summary |
The eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002 was incomprehensibly brutal-it is estimated that half of all female refugees were raped and many thousands were killed. While the publicity surrounding sexual violence helped to create a general picture of women and girls as victims of the conflict, there has been little effort to understand female soldiers' involvement in, and experience of, the conflict. Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone draws on interviews with 75 former female soldiers and over 20 local experts, providing a rare perspective on both the civil war and post-conflict de |
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Print version record |
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Rape as a weapon of war -- Sierra Leone
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Postwar reconstruction -- Sierra Leone
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Sex role -- Sierra Leone
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Women soldiers -- Sierra Leone
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Military participation -- Female
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Postwar reconstruction
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Rape as a weapon of war
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Sex role
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Women
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Women soldiers
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Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Women
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Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Participation, Female
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Sierra Leone
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814771259 |
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0814771254 |
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