Innocence and Victimhood : Gender, Nation, and Women's Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Helms, Elissa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
women > social conditions > human rights > war victims > nationalism > NGOs > war crimes > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Politisches Handeln
Menschenrecht
Kriegsopfer
Frau
Women political activists.
Women human rights workers.
Women.
War victims.
Social conditions
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Victimes de guerre > Bosnie-Herzegovine.
Defenseuses des droits de l'homme > Bosnie-Herzegovine.
Femmes activistes > Bosnie-Herzegovine.
Femmes > Bosnie-Herzegovine.
War victims > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Women human rights workers > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Women political activists > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Women > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosna i Hercegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia and Herzegovina > History > 1992-
Bosnia and Herzegovina > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (347 pages).
ISBN:9780299295530

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