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Author:   Ronit Lentin
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.315kg
ISBN:  

9781856494465

ISBN 10:   1856494462
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 December 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.

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&#8216;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.&#8217; - Irish Journal of Feminist Studies <br> &#8216;Important and accessible.&#8217; - Ethna Viney, Irish Times <br>

'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.' - Irish Journal of Feminist Studies <br> ' Important and accessible.' - Ethna Viney, Irish Times <br>

Author Information

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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