The Resource Our bodies, their battlefield : what war does to women, Christina Lamb
Our bodies, their battlefield : what war does to women, Christina Lamb
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The item Our bodies, their battlefield : what war does to women, Christina Lamb represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- From the award-winning war reporter and co-author of 'I Am Malala', this searing, angry book looks behind the bombs and the guns to offer a woman's view of warfare, the use of rape as a weapon of war and the many women victims of recent times. Rape in war is nothing new. Herodotus recorded it in the Greco-Persian wars of 5th century BC. From the ancient Greeks, Persians and Romans, Alexander the Great and the string of fair-haired blue-eyed children left across Central Asia, to the 'comfort women' of the Imperial Japanese Army and the rapes of German women by the Red Army in World War Two, women have long been seen as spoils of war. In a book that is as unflinching as it is passionate, Lamb tackles head on the growing number of stories of brutality against women from across the world, some of which have shocked her more profoundly than anything she has seen in her 30-year career as a war correspondent. Ethnic and sectarian groups across the world now use rape as a strategy - almost as a weapon of mass destruction - with women rounded up and incarcerated to produce offspring, a new generation of jihadis in a chilling real-life version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. From Bangladesh in 1970-1 when as many as 400,000 women were strung up against banana trees and raped deliberately by Pakistani troops to breed Punjabis, to Bosnia between 1992-5 when 20,000 women were forced into sexual slavery in rape camps by Serbian soldiers; to Rwanda where, in 1994 an estimated 250,000 Tutsi women were raped; to the 'rape capital of the world'' - Congo - where soldiers and rebels raped an estimated 200,000 women over the last ten years, often in front of their own children
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 416 pages
- Note
- "A wake up call ...these women's stories will make you weep and rage'...Amal Clooney - Cover
- Isbn
- 9780008300005
- Label
- Our bodies, their battlefield : what war does to women
- Title
- Our bodies, their battlefield
- Title remainder
- what war does to women
- Statement of responsibility
- Christina Lamb
- Title variation
- What war does to women
- Subject
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- Burma
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Crimes against humanity
- Crimes against humanity -- History
- History
- Iraq
- Nigeria
- Rape as a weapon of war
- Rape as a weapon of war
- Rwanda
- Sex crimes
- Sex crimes
- Syria
- War crimes
- War crimes
- Argentina
- War victims
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war -- Argentina
- Women and war -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Women and war -- Burma
- Women and war -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Women and war -- History
- Women and war -- Iraq
- Women and war -- Nigeria
- Women and war -- Philippines
- Women and war -- Rwanda
- Women and war -- Syria
- War victims
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the award-winning war reporter and co-author of 'I Am Malala', this searing, angry book looks behind the bombs and the guns to offer a woman's view of warfare, the use of rape as a weapon of war and the many women victims of recent times. Rape in war is nothing new. Herodotus recorded it in the Greco-Persian wars of 5th century BC. From the ancient Greeks, Persians and Romans, Alexander the Great and the string of fair-haired blue-eyed children left across Central Asia, to the 'comfort women' of the Imperial Japanese Army and the rapes of German women by the Red Army in World War Two, women have long been seen as spoils of war. In a book that is as unflinching as it is passionate, Lamb tackles head on the growing number of stories of brutality against women from across the world, some of which have shocked her more profoundly than anything she has seen in her 30-year career as a war correspondent. Ethnic and sectarian groups across the world now use rape as a strategy - almost as a weapon of mass destruction - with women rounded up and incarcerated to produce offspring, a new generation of jihadis in a chilling real-life version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. From Bangladesh in 1970-1 when as many as 400,000 women were strung up against banana trees and raped deliberately by Pakistani troops to breed Punjabis, to Bosnia between 1992-5 when 20,000 women were forced into sexual slavery in rape camps by Serbian soldiers; to Rwanda where, in 1994 an estimated 250,000 Tutsi women were raped; to the 'rape capital of the world'' - Congo - where soldiers and rebels raped an estimated 200,000 women over the last ten years, often in front of their own children
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lamb, Christina
- Dewey number
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- 363.34/98082
- 364.1532
- 362.88
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- JZ6405.W66
- LC item number
- L36 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sex crimes
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Crimes against humanity
- War victims
- War crimes
- Rape as a weapon of war
- Crimes against humanity
- Rape as a weapon of war
- Sex crimes
- War crimes
- War victims
- Women and war
- Argentina
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Burma
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Iraq
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Syria
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Our bodies, their battlefield : what war does to women, Christina Lamb
- Note
- "A wake up call ...these women's stories will make you weep and rage'...Amal Clooney - Cover
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-413)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1149543147
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 416 pages
- Isbn
- 9780008300005
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1149543147
- Label
- Our bodies, their battlefield : what war does to women, Christina Lamb
- Note
- "A wake up call ...these women's stories will make you weep and rage'...Amal Clooney - Cover
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-413)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1149543147
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 416 pages
- Isbn
- 9780008300005
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1149543147
Subject
- Burma
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Crimes against humanity
- Crimes against humanity -- History
- History
- Iraq
- Nigeria
- Rape as a weapon of war
- Rape as a weapon of war
- Rwanda
- Sex crimes
- Sex crimes
- Syria
- War crimes
- War crimes
- Argentina
- War victims
- Women and war
- Women and war
- Women and war -- Argentina
- Women and war -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Women and war -- Burma
- Women and war -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Women and war -- History
- Women and war -- Iraq
- Women and war -- Nigeria
- Women and war -- Philippines
- Women and war -- Rwanda
- Women and war -- Syria
- War victims
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
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