Innocence and victimhood : gender, nation, and women's activism in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms
- Author
- Helms, Elissa
- Published
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- 1. Victims and Peacemakers : "Contextualizing Representations -- 2. Wartime : Gender, Nationalism, and Sexualized Violence -- 3. The NGO Boom : Women's Organizing and Foreign Intervention in the Wake of War -- 4. The Nationing of Gender : Nationalism, Reconciliation, Feminisms -- 5. Politics Is a Whore : Women and the Political -- 6. Avoidance and Authenticity : The Public Face of Wartime Rape.
- Summary
- The 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina following the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia became notorious for "ethnic cleansing" and mass rapes targeting the Bosniac (Bosnian Muslim) population. Postwar social and political processes have continued to be dominated by competing nationalisms representing Bosniacs, Serbs, and Croats, as well as those supporting a multiethnic Bosnian state, in which narratives of victimhood take center stage, often in gendered form. The author shows that in the aftermath of the war, initiatives by and for Bosnian women perpetuated and complicated dominant images of women as victims and peacemakers in a conflict and political system led by men. In a sober corrective to such accounts, this book offers a critical look at the politics of women's activism and gendered nationalism in a postwar and postsocialist society.
- Subject(s)
- Since 1992
- Women—Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Women political activists—Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Women human rights workers—Bosnia and Herzegovina
- War victims—Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Femmes—Bosnie-Herzégovine
- Femmes activistes—Bosnie-Herzégovine
- Défenseuses des droits de l'homme—Bosnie-Herzégovine
- Victimes de guerre—Bosnie-Herzégovine
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Political Freedom & Security—Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Political Freedom & Security—Human Rights
- Social conditions
- War victims
- Women
- Women human rights workers
- Women political activists
- Frau
- Kriegsopfer
- Menschenrecht
- Politisches Handeln
- women—social conditions—human rights—war victims—nationalism—NGOs—war crimes—Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bosnia and Herzegovina—Social conditions
- Bosnia and Herzegovina—History—1992-
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bosnien-Herzegowina
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780299295530 (electronic bk.)
0299295532 (electronic bk.)
9780299295547
0299295540 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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