Women, Violence and War : Wartime Victimization of Refugees in the Balkans /

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Based on interviews with seventy women refugees, Women, Violence and War is a book about war as it is seen, lived and interpreted by women who were citizens of the former Yugoslavia. Many of the accounts portray the horrific experiences the victims had to face and the book addresses issues of sexual...

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Otros Autores: Blagojevic, Marina (Contribuidor), Konstantinovic-Vilic, Slobodanka (Contribuidor), Konstantinovie-Vilic, Slobodanka (Contribuidor), Mrvic-Petrovic, Natasa (Contribuidor), Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna (Contribuidor), Nikolić-Ristanović, Vesna (Editor ), Stevanovic, Ivana (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2000]
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Personal narratives, Bosnia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the Serbian edition
  • Introduction to the English edition
  • CHAPTER 1 A brief history of the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina (from its origins to the 1995 Dayton peace accords)
  • CHAPTER 2 Definitions of violence in war and the experience of women: the subject of research
  • CHAPTER 3 The method and the sample-a contribution to the feminist critique of methodology
  • CHAPTER 4 Sexual violence
  • CHAPTER 5 The Hague Tribunal and rape in the former Yugoslavia
  • CHAPTER 6 Physical abuse and homicide
  • CHAPTER 7 Psychological violence and fear in war, and their consequences for the psychological health of women
  • CHAPTER 8 Separation and dissolution of the family
  • CHAPTER 9 Life in refuge-changes in socioeconomic and familial status
  • CHAPTER 10 Social acceptance and the difficulty of adapting to a new environment
  • CHAPTER 11 Strategies of support and help
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Who are the women who have spoken?
  • Appendix 2. A sample of their stories and letters
  • Bibliography
  • List of contributors
  • Index

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