Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone

by Chris Coulter

Book Overview

During the war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone.When these girls and women returned to their home villages after the cessation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801475120
• ISBN13: 9780801475122
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"