Co-Edited by Helen Durham and Tracey Gurd

Listening to the Silences: Women and War is a collection of women’s voices, each one exploring a unique aspect of women’s experiences and changing needs during armed conflict, and the adequacy of legal and other responses to those needs. Drawing together highly personal stories with tight academic analyses, this book highlights the ways in which the international community at large has historically failed to listen to women. It reveals that responses to women’s requirements during times of war will continue to be inadequate so long as we persist in silencing these differing perspectives and fail to take account of women’s dynamic and changing needs.