Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone by Megan H. MacKenzie - 9781479852505

Female Soldiers in Sierra LeoneSex, Security, and Post-Conflict Development\nAuthor(s): Megan H. MacKenzie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479852505, 978-1479852505\nSynopsis\nThe eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002\n was incomprehensibly brutalit is estimated that half of all\n female refugees were raped and many thousands were killed.\n While the publicity surrounding sexual violence helped to\n create a general picture of women and girls as victims of the\n conflict, there has been little effort to understand female soldiers'\n involvement in, and experience of, the conflict. Female\n Soldiers in Sierra Leone draws on interviews with 75 former\n female soldiers and over 20 local experts, providing a rare\n perspective on both the civil war and post-conflict development\n efforts in the country. Megan MacKenzie argues that\n post-conflict reconstruction is a highly gendered.