Dubravka Zarkov

The Body of War

Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-Up of Yugoslavia

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2007
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780822339557
• ISBN-10: 0822339552
• Artikelnr.: 22880217

Autorenporträt

Dubravka arkov 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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