Women and war in Lebanon / edited by Lamia Rustum Shehadeh.

Other author Shehadeh, Lamia Rustum, 1940-
Format Book
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1999.
Descriptionxvi, 363 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women--Lebanon. --Beirut. --Social conditions.
Women--Lebanon. --Beirut. --Psychology.
Women in public life--Lebanon. --Beirut.
Women soldiers--Lebanon. --Beirut.
Arabic literature--Lebanon. --Women authors.
Lebanon--History. --Civil War, 1975-1990.

Contents Introduction -- The war in Lebanon -- Women before the war -- Women in the public sphere / Lamia Rustum Shedadeh -- Mapping peace / Miriam Cooke -- A panorama of Lebanese women writers, 1975-1995 / Mona Takieddine Amyuni -- Lebanon mythologized or Lebanon deconstructed: two narratives of national consciousness / Elise Salem Manganaro -- Art, the chemistry of life / Lamia Rustum Shedadeh -- Women in the Lebanese militias / Lamia Rustum Shedadeh -- Lebanese Shi'i women and Islamism: a response to war / Maria Holt -- Maman Aida, a Lebanese godmother of the combatants: fighting without arms / Kari H. Karamé -- From gunpowder to incense / Jocelyn Khweiri -- Profiles of foreign women in Lebanon during the Civil War / Mary Bentley Abu Saba -- War trauma and women: predisposition and vulnerability to adverse psychological health outcomes / Leila Farhood -- Women and the Lebanon wars: depression and post-traumatic stress disorder / Elie G. Karam -- Substance use and abuse: the Lebanese female and the Lebanon wars / P. Yabroudi, ... [et al.] -- A war of survival.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-[350]) and index.
LCCN 99017516
ISBN0813017076 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1728 .W63 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold