... different from each other. In most cases, wherever in the world, or whatever the time, the role that women have played has been generally similar. Over the last century there have been a large number of conflicts that have been fought as liberation struggles - either to liberate a nation from colonial rule, like Zimbabwe and Algeria; or to liberate a minority group from majority oppression, or liberate a people from the oppressive actions of their own government, for example South Africa and Nicaragua. In some of these struggles women have played a more active and combative role than has been the norm and also in some cases the liberation of women has been either a central plank of at least one of the stated aims of the struggle. I want to look at the role that women have played in this kind of struggle, particularly in Eritrea both during the struggle ...

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