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This was not our war : Bosnian women reclaiming the peace

Title: This was not our war : Bosnian women reclaiming the peace / Swanee Hunt ; foreword by William Jefferson Clinton.
Author: Hunt, Swanee.
Publication: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

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Description

xxxiv, 307 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"This Was Not Our War shares first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare. A university student working to resettle refugees, a paramedic who founded a veterans' aid group, a fashion designer running two nonprofit organizations, a government minister and professor who survived Auschwitz - these women are advocates, politicians, farmers, journalists, students, doctors, businesswomen, engineers, wives, and mothers. They are from all parts of Bosnia and represent its full range of ethnic traditions and mixed heritages. Their ages spread across sixty years, and their wealth ranges from expensive jewels to a few chickens. For all their differences, they have this much in common: all survived the war with enough emotional strength to work toward rebuilding their country."--Jacket

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-295) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- pt. 1. Madness -- Hell breaks loose -- Love in the crucible -- Reasons for the war -- The lie of intractable hatreds -- pt. 2. To heal history -- Challenges -- Women transforming -- The road to reconciliation -- Epilogue: The courage to hope -- Profiles -- Closing thoughts.

ISBN

0822333554
9780822333555

LCCN

2004006832
99809180872

OCLC

ocm54803659
54803659
SCSB-1348030

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library