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Gender and catastrophe / edited by Ronit Lentin.
- Title
- Gender and catastrophe / edited by Ronit Lentin.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Lenṭin, Ronit
- Description
- 282 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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. The female experience of methodical genocidal rape in the former Yugoslavia, women's coerced participation in the Rwandan massacre, the comfort women system during World War II, the gendering of genocidal strategies during the Holocaust, nuclear testing in the Pacific and the reproduction 'policy' in Tibet are all integrated into a wider framework - a framework which uncovers the true consequences of identifying women as simultaneously sexual objects, transmitters of culture and symbols of the nation." -- Publisher's description.
- Alternative Title
- Gender & catastrophe
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. I, Genders and genocides -- pt. II, Women in a war zone: the construction of gendered identities -- pt. III, Captured subjects : displacing women's bodies -- pt. IV, Sexualized slaveries -- pt. V, Gendered victimization : migration, poverty, famines.
- ISBN
- 1856494454 (hbk.)
- 1856494462 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^98170587^
- OCLC
- 38284413
- SCSB-10327245
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library