Žarkov / Dubravka Zarkov / Kaplan The Body of War

Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9018-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Examines how notions of femininity and masculinity and heterosexual norms produced ethnicity in the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and also looks at how words and images created by the media are just as influential as violent practices in constructin

Autoren/Hrsg.

Žarkov, Dubravka

Dubravka Zarkov, Zarkov

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. The Maternal Body

1. The Whore against the Mother of All Serbs 19

2. Pictures of the Wall of Love 43

3. Troubles with Motherhood 69

Part II. The Victimized Body

4. The Body of All Serbs 85

5. All the Bodies of Croatia 102

6. Sexual Geographies of Ethnicity 116

7. On Victims and Villains 143

8. The Body of the Other Man 155

9. Troubles with the Victim 170

Part III. The Armed Body

10. Soldirs of Tradition 191

11. Troubles with Arms 212

Notes 233

Bibliography 257

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Dubravka Žarkov is an Associate Professor in Gender, Conflict, and Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. She is a coeditor of The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities, and International Peacekeeping and an associate editor of Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology.