Gender and catastrophe / edited by Ronit Lentin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : (en)gendering genocides / Ronit Lentin -- Genocide and gender : a split memory / Joan Ringelheim -- Against the war : women organizing across the national divide in the countries of the former Yugoslavia / Rada Boric -- Rape, power, and masculinity : the construction of gender and national identities in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Euan Hague -- Reconstructing the self through memories of violence among Mayan Indian war widows / Judith Zur -- The mother of all warriors : women in West Belfast, Northern Ireland / Lorraine Dowler -- A question of silence : partition, women, and the state / Urvashi Butalia -- Women face cultural genocide on the roof of the world / Yangchen Kikhang -- A broken rainbow : pacific women and nuclear testing / Zohl dé Ishtar -- Women and fundamentalism in Iran / Haideh Moghissi -- The "comfort women" system during World War II : Asian women as targets of mass rape and sexual slavery by Japan / Nelia Sancho -- Chattels and concubines : women and slavery in Brazil / Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes -- The economy of violence : black bodies and the unspeakable terror / Bibi Bakare-Yusuf -- Enslaved black women : the politics of reproduction and infanticide / Helen Thomas -- Invisible subjects and the victimized self : settlement experiences of refugee women in Australia / Roberta Julian -- "I have a feeling of being exiled here" : women migrants in Central Russia / Natalya Kosmarskaya -- Ethiopian women immigrants into Israel : the loss of space and body / Tovi Fenster -- Woman as famine victim : the figure of woman in Irish famine narratives / Margaret Kelleher -- "Disasters" and Bangladeshi women / Santi Rozario.