This book explores the multiplicity of women’s experiences in the
Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge.
The dominant discourses of genocide often speak from a patriarchal
and national perspective, rendering women speechless; and yet in
this volume the female survivors of the Cambodian genocide testify
to the specific atrocities committed during the war, but also to
the pre-war conditions that laid the groundwork for a
gender-specific victimization of women and its continuation
post-war. With the help of testimonies from Khmer women who joined
the Khmer Rouge, women who experienced sexual violence during the
Khmer Rouge era, the women who fled the country, and the Cham women
who faced expulsion from home, this book explores the diversity of
women’s experiences under the Khmer Rouge. Survivors’ accounts
show that a Khmer woman’s experience with the Khmer Rouge was
considerably different from the experience of not only a Khmer man
but also from a woman from a religious or ethnic minority group, or
a woman who chose to join the Khmer Rouge. These differences are
conveniently ignored in nationalist discourses in Cambodia and by
western scholars of history and gender-based violence, and they are
given even less consideration in discourses about women survivors
in diaspora. Instead of forcing generalization and universalization
of gendered crimes of war, Gender and Genocide in Cambodia employs
feminist curiosity and closely examines women’s experiences under
the Khmer Rouge from multiple vantage points. This volume is
essential reading for students and scholars interested in gender
and cultural studies, political history and modern history.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Mass Violence in Modern History |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| First published: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Azra Rashid
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
240 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-241397-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-03-241397-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781032413976 |
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