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Gender and Catastrophe

Gender and Catastrophe


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This book explores the gendered and gendering effects of violence against women in extreme situations such as major wars, genocides, famines, slavery, the Holocaust, mass rape and ethnic cleansing.

Case studies include: the female experience of methodical genocidal rape in the former Yugoslavia; women’s coerced participation in the Rwandan massacre; Japan's comfort women system during World War II; the gendering of genocidal strategies during the Holocaust; nuclear testing in the Pacific; and China's reproduction policy in Tibet.

All are integrated into a wider framework, which uncovers the true consequences of identifying women as simultaneously sexual objects, transmitters of culture, and symbols of the nation.



Table of Contents:

Part I: Genders and Genocides
1. Introduction: (En)Gendering Genocides - Ronit Lentin
2. Genocide and Gender: A Split Memory - Joan Ringelheim

Part II: Women in a War Zone
3. Against the War: Women Organizing Themselves in the Countries of the Former Yugoslavia - Rada Boric
4. Rape, Power and Masculinity: The Construction of Gender and National Identities in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Euan Hague
5. Reconstructing the Self Through Memories of Violence Among Mayan Indian Women War Widows - Jusith Zur
6. The Mother of All Warriors: Women in West Belfast, Northern Ireland - Lorraine Dowler

Part III: Captured Subjects
7. A Question of Silence: Partition, Women and the State - Urvashi Butalia
8. China's 'Final Solution': Women Face Cultural Genocide on the Roof of the World - Yangchen Kikhang
9. A Broken Rainbow: Pacific Women and Nuclear Testing - Zohl de Ishtar
10. Defying the Guardians of Sharia: Women and Fundamentalism in Iran - Haideh Moghissi

Part IV: Sexualized Slaveries
11. Asian Women as Targets of Mass Rape and Sexual Slavery in Japan - Nelia Sancho
12. Chattels and Concubines: Women and Slavery in Brazil - Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
13. The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror - Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
14. Female Slaves and the Politics of Reproduction and Infanticide - Helen Thomas

Part V: Gendered Victimization

15. Invisible Subjects of the Victimized Self: Settlement Experiences of Refugee Women in Australia - Roberta Julian
16. 'I Have a Feeling of Being Exiled Here': Adaptation Experience of Russian Women Migrating from the 'Near Abroad' - Natalya Kosmarskaya
17. Ethiopian Women Migrants into Israel: The Loss of Space and Body? - Tovi Fenster
18. The Figure of Women in Irish Famine Narratives - Margaret Kelleher
19. 'Disasters' and Bangladeshi Women - Santi Rozario.



About the Author :
Ronit Lentin is a senior lecturer in sociology and coordinator of the Global Networks project at the Institute of International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Her books include Conversations with Palestinian Women (1982), Race and State (with Alana Lentin, 2006), and Performing Global Networks (with Karen Fricker, 2007).

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Important and accessible. One of those books that should be essential reading for students across a wide range of disciplines... an inspirational book in an area that has been neglected by the mainstream of (Northern/Western) feminist academia.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781856494465
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • ISBN-10: 1856494462
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 288


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