Women and war in Rwanda : gender, media and the representation of genocide /

"The 1994 genocide in Rwanda, which followed the death of President Habyarimana, was one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century. Beamed into the living rooms of the West, it shamed both African and global leaderships. As wars in the Congo continue to tear apart the region,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holmes, Georgina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Colección:International library of African studies ; v. 39.
Temas:
1994
Genocide > Social aspects.
Women in war.
Women > Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994.
Guerre > Participation des femmes.
Communication studies.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Women
Women in war
Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Women.
Rwanda > Histoire > 1994 (Guerre civile) > Femmes.
Rwanda
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Contextualizing media events: war and genocide in Rwanda and the east of Congo
  • pt. I The 1994 genocide in Rwanda
  • pt. II ̀Ground Zero'
  • pt. III Political voice in Rwanda post-1994
  • 2. Rwandan women and war
  • pt. I Race hierarchies, new wars and genocide in Africa
  • pt. II Pauline Nyiramasuhuko: the subversive narrative in global politics
  • pt. III International politics of revisionism
  • 3. Militarizing women, preparing for genocide: Hutu extremist magazine Kangura 1990
  • 94
  • pt. I Gendered images of politics in Rwanda
  • pt. II Kangura and the militarization of the pure Hutu nation state
  • Parr III Citizen versus partial- and non-citizen Rwandan women in Kangura
  • 4. Newsnight
  • pt. I Genocide or war? Newsnight's silenced debate
  • pt. II Mediatizing Rwandan women
  • pt. III Political manoeuvring
  • 5. Remembering genocide, forgetting politics: the BBC's institutional narrative post-1994
  • pt. I Remembering genocide.
  • pt. II Forgetting politics
  • pt. III The BBC in Rwanda
  • 6.̀Living on gold should be a blessing, instead it is a curse': mass rape in the Congo
  • pt. I Genocide by attrition
  • pt. II British and American Congo atrocity narratives
  • pt. III Mediatized conflict in the Great Lakes region
  • pt. IV Congolese women speak out.

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