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Subject(s)

• Women—Sierra Leone—Social conditions [Browse]
• Women—Political activity—Sierra Leone [Browse]
• Gender identity—Sierra Leone [Browse]
• Sex discrimination—Sierra Leone [Browse]

Series

• Africa in development ; volume 14. [More in this series]
• Africa in development, 1662-1212 ; volume 14 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• Understanding gender in Sierra Leone : discourse, practice and constructs
• Rainforest belief systems and the making of gender identities
• Gender inequality and the making of a civil war
• Violent masculinity and the making of the warring factions
• Gender hierarchies, roles and violence in the warring factions
• Beyond the recognition of SGBV in the peace versus the justice debate : how women won the civil war
• The aftermath : accountability for gender-based political and cultural violence
• At war's end! Understanding the postcolonial question on queer sexuality
• Socio-political change or resistance ? Religion, politics and the question of homosexuality
• Women's agency and the institutionalisation of interventions against gender violence and discrimination against women
• Acknowledging the past and present, and forging the way forward
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781906165772 ((pbk.))
• 1906165777

LCCN

2016942151

OCLC

964456915

International Article Number

• 9781906165772

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