Our bodies, their battlefields war through the lives of women
The girl I once was -- 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...
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New York
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The girl I once was -- 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 "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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 369 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781501199172 978-1-5011-9917-2 |