War and Women across Continents

Shirley Ardener, has carried out many years anthropological fieldwork in Nigeria and in Cameroon where she is still involved with the National Anglophone Archives in Buea which she and her husband Edwin set up. She was the Founding Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women (1983-1997) renamed the International Gender Studies at Lady Margaret Hall Oxford University of which she is currently a Research Associate, and a Research Associate of the Institute of Social Anthropology at Oxford. She works on gender, microcredit, nudity, and humour. Books include Swedish Ventures in Cameroon (2002) and Changing Sex and Bending Gender (ed. 2005).Fiona Armitage-Woodward has held various teaching and research posts, including at Oxfam. She was a founding member of the Swaziland Society (1991). Her publications include contributions to Focus on Swaziland, which she has edited, and "Imitating Ethnicity: Land, Territoriality and Identity in a Swazi Christian Church" in Land and Territoriality, ed., Michael Saltman (2002).Lidia D. Sciama is a Research Associate of the Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and a former Director of Oxford's International Gender Studies Centre, where she is currently a Senior Research Associate. She has conducted long-term research in Italy and England with a focus on women's crafts, city life, narrative, memory and relations between anthropology and literature. Among her publications are A Venetian Island. Environment, History and Change in Burano (Berghahn Books 2003) and Humour, Comedy and Laughter (Berghahn Books, 2016).

• Introduction: Women's Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences of War across Continents: An IntroductionShirley ArdenerChapter 1. The Resistance of Francesca Tonetti in German-Occupied Venice 1943-1945Lidia Dina SciamaChapter 2. Ank Faber-Chabot, A Dutchwoman who Sheltered Jews in World War IIMarieke Faber ClarkeChapter 3. Hildegard Jaschok's Testimony: Expulsion and Hope in World War IIMaria JaschokChapter 4. Mau Mau Women: Sixty Years LaterTabitha KanogoChapter 5. Women and Conflict in Burma's BorderlandsMandy SadanChapter 6. Rebuilding Family, Body and Soul: New Life on the Cambodian BorderJanette DaviesChapter 7. Rwandan Women at War: Fighting for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (1990-1994)Hannah Spens-BlackChapter 8. Women War Correspondents in 2013Glenda CooperChapter 9. Talking Gender, War and Security at NATOMatthew HurleyChapter 10. Military Masculinities and Counterinsurgency Theory in Afghanistan: An Uneasy Relationship?Rachel Grimes

"Interesting and timely. Using different research methods to arrive at the story of women involved in war and conflicts adds value to existing feminist research methods. The academic, and especially feminist, readership will benefit from this volume." Nahla Abdo, Carleton University"I enjoyed reading this book and admired its range across time and space. The variety of cases included is its main strength." Linda McDowell, University of Oxford