Girls with guns: narrating the experience of war of FRELIMO's 'female detachment'

Children and Youth on the Front Line: Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement

Volumn 14, Issue , 2004, Pages 105-129

  West, Harry G ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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