Overview
- Variant Title
- Gender & catastrophe
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 1997
- Contents
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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. - Notes
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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.
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- English
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- ISBN
- 1856494454
9781856494458
1856494462
9781856494465 - Physical Description
- 282 pages ; 23 cm
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