Author Talk: Christina Lamb - Our Bodies, Their Battlefields
Sat, Oct 03
|Politics and Prose Hosted Zoom
Join Univ Fellow Christina Lamb as she discusses her new book, "Our Bodies, Their Battlefields" with Politics and Prose.


Time & Location
Oct 03, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Politics and Prose Hosted Zoom
About the event
From the Politics and Prose Event Page:
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,…