The book makes and attempt to capture both the structural and emotional disturbances that affect women and children during times of war. While undertaking a sociological inquiry into the lives of the women and children, inevitably it enters into a political focus. The role of the state or rather the complicity of the state in creating coercive patterns of governance, also becomes visible in the sideline.
Author: Selvy Thiruchandran
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