"Missing Voices: Women’s Experience in War and Combat"

Women’s Heritage Lecture by Christina Weber
March 31-Monday-7:00 p.m.-Aleshire Theatre

The voices of women participating in war and combat have been largely absent in popular culture and historical documents of war due to women’s restriction from official combat status. Yet women have played (and continue to play) a significant role in war, largely as a result of the increasingly blurred boundaries between combat and combat support. Although there has been extensive public interest in men’s experiences of war, demonstrated by the myriad published biographies and memoirs of men’s experiences in the Vietnam War and numerous memoirs already emerging from male Iraqi War veterans, relatively little is known about women’s war experiences.

In "Missing Voices: Women's Experience in War and Combat," Christina Weber will use in-depth interviews with women in North Dakota who have served in recent wars, including Vietnam and Iraq, to tell of the dangers and hardships women experience in war and the challenges they have with reintegrating into home and civilian life.

Christina Weber
Christina D. Weber, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Dakota State University (NDSU). She earned her doctoral degree at the State University of New York-Buffalo in 2005 and began her position at NDSU in the fall of that year. Dr. Weber’s professional work ranges from research on the social impact of war to theoretical analyses of social inequality and social change. In her doctoral research, she examined the effects of the Vietnam War on children of Vietnam Veterans. Currently, she is collaborating with the North Dakota National Guard’s Family Program on a research project that explores institutional responses to war.