Research Catalog

Title

Our bodies, their battlefields : war through the lives of women / Christina Lamb.

Author

Lamb, Christina

Publication

• New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

369 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she's never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars--the "bang-bang" war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of wartime, other than as grieving widows and mothers, though their experience is markedly different from that of the men involved in battle. Lamb chronicles extraordinary tragedy and challenges in the lives of women in wartime. And none is more devastating than the increase of the use of rape as a weapon of war. Visiting warzones including the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Bosnia, and Iraq, and spending time with the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, she records the harrowing stories of survivors, from Yazidi girls kept as sex slaves by ISIS fighters and the beekeeper risking his life to rescue them; to the thousands of schoolgirls abducted across northern Nigeria by Boko Haram, to the Congolese gynecologist who stitches up more rape victims than anyone on earth. Told as a journey, and structured by country, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields gives these women voice."--Amazon

Subjects

• POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights
• Rape as a weapon of war
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Women and war > History
• Syria
• Philippines
• Women and war > Bosnia and Herzegovina
• War victims
• Women and war > Nigeria
• POLITICAL SCIENCE > Women in Politics
• Women and war > Syria
• Women and war > Burma
• Burma
• Women and war > Rwanda
• Argentina
• Women and war > Iraq
• Political science
• Iraq
• Women and war > Argentina
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• History
• War crimes
• Nigeria
• Women and war > Philippines
• POLITICAL SCIENCE > Genocide & War Crimes
• Sex crimes
• Rwanda
• Women and war > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Crimes against humanity > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

On Mussolini's Island -- The girls in the forest -- The power of a hashtag -- Queue here for the rape victim -- Women who stare into space -- The women who changed history -- The roses of Sarajevo -- This is what a genocide looks like -- The hunting hour -- Then there was silence -- The beekeeper of Aleppo -- The Nineveh trials -- Dr. Miracle and the city of joy -- Mummy didn't close the door properly... -- The Lolas-Till the last breath -- Giving the nightingale her song.

Call Number

Sc E 21-13

ISBN

• 150119917X
• 9781501199172

OCLC

1039389378

Author

Lamb, Christina, author.

Title

Our bodies, their battlefields : war through the lives of women / Christina Lamb.

Publisher

New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-13

JFE 21-69