Women's Bodies as Battlefield - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Bodies as Battlefield write by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. This book was released on 2016-02-05. Women's Bodies as Battlefield available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women. War itself has come to resemble the war on women, and thus strategies to end the war on women, supported by new Christian theological interpretations, will also help end today's endless wars.
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Bodies, Their Battlefields write by Christina Lamb. This book was released on 2020-09-22. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she’s never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars—the “bang-bang” war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of wartime, other than as grieving widows and mothers, though their experience is markedly different from that of the men involved in battle. Lamb chronicles extraordinary tragedy and challenges in the lives of women in wartime. And none is more devastating than the increase of the use of rape as a weapon of war. Visiting warzones including the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Bosnia, and Iraq, and spending time with the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, she records the harrowing stories of survivors, from Yazidi girls kept as sex slaves by ISIS fighters and the beekeeper risking his life to rescue them; to the thousands of schoolgirls abducted across northern Nigeria by Boko Haram, to the Congolese gynecologist who stitches up more rape victims than anyone on earth. Told as a journey, and structured by country, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields gives these women voice. We have made significant progress in international women’s rights, but across the world women are victimized by wartime atrocities that are rarely recorded, much less punished. The first ever prosecution for war rape was in 1997 and there have been remarkably few convictions since, as if rape doesn’t matter in the reckoning of war, only killing. Some courageous women in countries around the world are taking things in their own hands, hunting down the war criminals themselves, trying to trap them through Facebook. In this profoundly important book, Christina Lamb shines a light on some of the darkest parts of the human experience—so that we might find a new way forward. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields is as inspiring and empowering is as it is urgent, a clarion call for necessary change.
A Theology of Women's Bodies as Battlefield
A Theology of Women's Bodies as Battlefield - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Theology of Women's Bodies as Battlefield write by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. This book was released on 2015-07-15. A Theology of Women's Bodies as Battlefield available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book demonstrates that the 'war on women' is not a metaphor but rather a global pandemic of violence against women that constitutes an actual war with female bodies serving as places of battle. The author shows that, of the many societal structures that enable both the violence of literal war and violence against women, the three most crucial factors are the desire for power, hierarchical authority structures, and contempt for the body. Not only do war and violence against women have some of the same social, cultural, and religious roots, but these roots are also mutually reinforcing. The book ritiques paradigms designed to limit or prevent war (pacifism, 'just peace,' and 'just war') from the perspective of violence against women and proposes changes to these paradigms.
Women's Bodies Have Become Part of the Battlefield
Women's Bodies Have Become Part of the Battlefield - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Bodies Have Become Part of the Battlefield write by . This book was released on 2003. Women's Bodies Have Become Part of the Battlefield available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Stand Your Ground
Stand Your Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stand Your Ground write by Douglas Brown, Kelly . This book was released on 2015-05-05. Stand Your Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teenager in Florida, and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, brought public attention to controversial "Stand Your Ground" laws. The verdict, as much as the killing, sent shock waves through the African-American community, recalling a history of similar deaths, and the long struggle for justice. On the Sunday morning following the verdict, black preachers around the country addressed the question, "Where is the justice of God? What are we to hope for?" This book is an attempt to take seriously social and theological questions raised by this and similar stories, and to answer black church people's questions of justice and faith in response to the call of God. But Kelly Brown Douglas also brings another significant interpretative lens to this text: that of a mother. "There has been no story in the news that has troubled me more than that of Trayvon Martin's slaying. President Obama said that if he had a son his son would look like Trayvon. I do have a son and he does look like Trayvon." Her book will also affirm the "truth" of a black mother's faith in these times of stand your ground."--
