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The Body of War - Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
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The Body of War - Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
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In The Body of War, Dubravka Zarkov analyzes representations of
female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the
late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which
Yugoslavia disintegrated. Zarkov proposes that the Balkan war was
not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was produced by
the war itself. Zarkov explores the process through which ethnicity
was generated, showing how lived and symbolic female and male
bodies became central to it. She does not posit a direct causal
relationship between hate speech published in the press during the
mid-1980s and the acts of violence in the war. Instead, she argues
that both the representational practices of the "media war" and the
violent practices of the "ethnic war" depended on specific, shared
notions of femininity and masculinity, norms of (hetero)sexuality,
and definitions of ethnicity. Tracing the links between the war and
press representations of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, Zarkov
examines the media's coverage of two major protests by women who
explicitly identified themselves as mothers, of sexual violence
against women and men during the war, and of women as militants.
She draws on contemporary feminist analyses of violence to
scrutinize international and local feminist writings on the war in
former Yugoslavia. Demonstrating that some of the same essentialist
ideas of gender and sexuality used to produce and reinforce the
significance of ethnic differences during the war often have been
invoked by feminists, she points out the political and theoretical
drawbacks to grounding feminist strategies against violence in
ideas of female victimhood.
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