Fighting Women
Maaza Mengiste, Christina Lamb, Julie Wheelwright join Eleanor Barraclough to look at women's experience of fighting from Scythians to the Italo-Ethiopian war to modern day Sudan.
Maaza Mengiste, Christina Lamb, Julie Wheelwright join Eleanor Barraclough to look at women's experience of fighting from Ethiopia's war with Mussolini to modern day Sudan back to Amazonians and British and French colonial troops in Canada. And academic Shawn Sobers discusses his research into the years Haile Selassie spent living in Bath after he escaped from a war-torn Ethiopia.
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields by Christina Lamb looks at rape as a weapon in war.
Maaza Mengiste's novel The Shadow King is set during Italy's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia.
Julie Wheelwright's book is called Sisters in Arms: Female warriors from antiquity to the new millennium. It includes the discoveries she made whilst researching one of her ancestors.
Shawn Sobers from the University of the West of England is a filmmaker and photographer whose work can be found at http://www.shawnsobers.com/
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
A collection of Free Thinking programmes on War & Conflict can be found on the programme website /programmes/p06kgbyb
Adrienne Mayor on the Amazon /programmes/b05nt04m
Natalie Haynes looks at the Legacy of the Trojan War /programmes/m000bg2k
Last on
More episodes
Broadcast
- Tue 10 Mar 2020 22:00成人快手 Radio 3
Featured in...
Exploring Black History—Free Thinking
Celebrating Black History Month with a curated playlist exploring Black history
Women in the world—Free Thinking
Free thinking explores women's lives and issues.
War & Conflict—Free Thinking
Spying, peace negotiating & the power balance around the world, films, books, paintings
Arts
Creativity, performance, debate
Discussions and talks from the Free Thinking Festival 2019
Click to listen to discussions, talks and music as the Free Thinking Festival 2019 Gets Emotional
CLICK to LISTEN & SEE programmes from the Free Thinking Festival 2018: The One & the Many
CLICK to LISTEN & SEE all programmes, images, clips & features from 2017's festival
Free Thinking Festival 2017: The Speed of Life