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The Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
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2007
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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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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.
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“Dubravka Žarkov’s remarkable book brings new insights to bear on the feminist theorizing of war. Nuanced, complex, lucid, and empirically grounded, Žarkov’s powerful combination of the insider’s understanding, passion, and emotional attachment with the academic’s distance and rigor, makes this a hard-to-put-down read.”—Urvashi Butalia, author of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
“Theoretically sophisticated and passionately argued, The Body of War shows how women’s (and men’s) bodies are implicated in the war in former Yugoslavia and its aftermath. Dubravka Žarkov courageously goes where others have feared to tread, rejecting too-easy assumptions that this was just a conflict between ethnic groups. Her book is a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the ways gender and sexuality intersect to produce differences in ethnicity, thereby creating the pretext and the context for conflict and war.”—Kathy Davis, author of The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders
“The Body of War is the crowning achievement of Dubravka Žarkov’s year-long research in media, gender and ethnicity during ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia. . . . The book is highly recommended to those interested not only in gender studies and issues of violence against women, but also to criminologists, victimologists, as well as scholars and activists in conflict, media and peace studies.”
-- Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic Feminist Review
“This illuminating book is erudite and systematic. There is a lot in it that is very valuable, particularly the discussion on victimized fe/male bodies, making this book an important addition to the literature on how gender and sexuality intersect with ethnicity and produce war and war violence in specific circumstances and points in time.”
-- Maja Korac Nations and Nationalism
“While The Body of War provides an extremely useful feminist analysis for scholars and general readers on the discourses of the media during the Balkans conflict, it goes beyond discourse analysis to reflect upon, and intervene, in crucial current debates on feminist narrativization, historiography and practice. . . . Zarkov’s treatment of themedia, feminist discourse and questions of history and representation in the context of armed conflict provides a very thoughtful, accessible and timely platform towards this goal.”
-- Neloufer de Mel European Journal of Women's Studies
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - PART I. THE MATERNAL BODY
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1. The Whore against the Mother of All Serbs
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2. Pictures of the Wall of Love
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3. Troubles with Motherhood
69 - PART II. THE VICTIMIZED BODY
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4. The Body of All Serbs
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5. All the Bodies of Croatia
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6. Sexual Geographies of Ethnicity
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7. On Victims and Villains
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8. The Body of the Other Man
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9. Troubles with the Victim
170 - PART III. THE ARMED BODY
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10. Soldiers of Tradition
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11. Troubles with Arms
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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September 3, 2007
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9780822390183
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296
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15 illustrations
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