TY  - BOOK
AU  - Srivastava, Garima
AU  - Rajesh Kumar
TI  - The body, a nation: when your body is a memoir of war
SN  - 9789390961726
U1  - 306.42 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Vitasta Publishing
KW  - War victims Croatia; Women refugees Croatia Social conditions; Women refugees Social conditions
N2  - It is hard to define the identity and bodily autonomy of a woman, more so in the face of war. The knowledge of crime and abuse often plays only in the background of our lives, but for the countless women who have witnessed the full capabilities of mankind, the world remains a hostile place. For author Garima Srivastava, what was to be a two-year posting in a foreign land, slowly turned into a journey of discovery—of the self and the other. Chronicling her thoughts about family, the homeland, womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir, and the everlasting remnants of a war that ravaged Europe, she leaves us with thoughts and questions to ask of our own
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