Alexandra Stiglmayer interviewed survivors of the continuing war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to reveal, to a seemingly deaf world,
the horrors of the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia. The
women--primarily of Muslim but also of Croatian and Serbian
origin--have endured the atrocities of rape and the loss of loved
ones. Their testimony, published in the 1993 German edition, is
bare, direct, and its cumulative effect overwhelming.
The first English edition contains Stiglmayer's updates to her
own two essays, one detailing the historical context of the current
conflict and the other presenting the core of the book, interviews
with some twenty victims of rape as well as interviews with three
Serbian perpetrators. Essays investi-gating mass rape and war from
ethnopsychological, sociological, cultural, and medical
perspectives are included.
New essays by Catharine A. MacKinnon, Rhonda Copelon, and Susan
Brownmiller address the crucial issues of recognizing the human
rights of women and children. A foreword by Roy Gutman describes
war crimes within the context of the UN Tribunal, and an afterword
by Cynthia Enloe relates the mass rapes of this war to developments
and reactions in the international women's movement.
Accounts of torture, murder, mutilation, abduction, sexual
enslavement, and systematic attempts to impregnate--all in the name
of "ethnic cleansing"--make for the grimmest of reading. However
brutal and appalling the information conveyed here, this book
cannot and should not be ignored.
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