Girls with guns: Narrating the experience of war of Frelimo's "female detachment"

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 180-194

  West, Harry G ^a  

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Author keywords

Child soldiers; Guerrilla war; Ideology; Narrative; Violence; Women's emancipation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034287248     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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