 | Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women''s Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone Subjects: Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War 1991–2002 -- Women; Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War 1991–2002 -- Participation Female; Women and war -- Sierra Leone; Women -- Crimes against -- Sierra Leone; Rural women -- Sierra Leone -- Social conditions; 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... Chris Coulter is a lecturer and researcher at Uppsala University and coauthor of Young Female Fighters in African Wars . |
