War is overwhelmingly a male occupation. Yet its victims are often civilians -- many among them women and children. In Women and War Jenny Matthews gives a voice to this silent majority of casualties through a series of deeply moving -- sometimes disturbing -- photographs of human subjects in the midst of war and conflict wherever they are found. Twenty years of visual and written diaries tell of human struggle around the world -- in Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Burma, Chechnya, Haiti, the United Kingdom, Guatemala, and Sudan, among others. Jenny Matthews documents women and the roles they play -- avoiding, coping, confronting, participating -- as well as the emotions they experience: anger, fear, despair, joy, hope, terror. Jenny Matthews records the stories of the people she photographs, both visually and with written diaries that underscore the immediacy of the images, drawing connections between the different countries. Above all her book is a celebration of the lives of women, and how their role as actual or potential mothers changes their relationship to war. Jenny Matthews, freelance photographer and filmmaker, chronicles the devastating effects of armed conflict on women. Her work has been exhibited by Oxfam and Womankind Worldwide, and has appeared in magazines such as Mother Jones.

Women and War

Arts & Photography

Matthews, Jenny

Individual Artists

University of Michigan Press

New Baby (Celebrations)

Literature & Fiction

Baskerville, Judith

Mythology & Folk Tales

A C Black Publishers Ltd

Five Stones and Knuckle Bones (Jumbo Jets)

Deshpande, Chris

Spanning the last twenty years, this is a photographic diary of women in war affected countries throughout the world.

Photography & Video

Pluto Press

Through personal narrative and candid photographs, a photojournalist chronicles young lives upended by violence and strife. The right to adequate nutrition and medical care. The right to free education. The right to a name and nationality. The right to affection, love, and understanding. In conflict zones around the world, children are denied these and other basic rights. Follow photographer Jenny Matthews into refugee camps, overcrowded cities, damaged villages, clinics, and support centers where children and their families live, work, play, learn, heal, and try to survive the devastating impact of war. This moving book depicts the resilience and resourcefulness of young people who, though heavily impacted by the ravages of war, search for a better future for themselves, their families, and their cultures.

Children Growing Up with War

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Candlewick

Children Growing Up With War

Franklin Watts Ltd

Franklin Watts

Die ersten Jahre deines Kindes.

LEACH, Penelope

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