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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.
The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh took place as a result of the
region's long history of colonization, the 1947 partition of the
Indian subcontinent into largely Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India,
and the continuation of ethnic and religious politics in Pakistan,
specifically the political suppression of the Bengali people of
East Pakistan. The violence endured by women during the 1971
genocide is repeated in the writing of national history. The
secondary position that women occupy within nationalism is mirrored
in the nationalist narratives of history. This book engages with
the existing feminist scholarship on gender, nationalism and
genocide to investigate the dominant representations of gender in
the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh and juxtaposes the testimonies of
survivors and national memory of that war to create a shift of
perspective that demands a breaking of silence. The author explores
and challenges how gender has operated in service of Bangladeshi
nationalist ideology, in particular as it is represented at the
Liberation War Museum. The archive of this museum in Bangladesh is
viewed as a site of institutionalized dialogue between the 1971
genocide and the national memory of that event. An examination of
the archive serves as an opening point into the ideologies that
have sanctioned a particular authoring of history, which is written
from a patriarchal perspective and insists on restricting women's
trauma to the time of war. To question the archive is to question
the authority and power that is inscribed in the archive itself and
that is the function performed by testimonies in this book.
Testimonies are offered from five unique vantage points - rape
survivor, war baby, freedom fighter, religious and ethnic
minorities - to question the appropriation and omission of women's
stories. Furthermore, the emphasis on the multiplicity of women's
experiences in war seeks to highlight the counter-narrative that is
created by acknowledging the differences in women's experiences in
war instead of transcending those differences. An innovative and
nuanced approach to the subject of treatment and objectification of
women in conflict and post conflict and how the continuing effects
entrench ideas of gender roles and identity, this book will be of
interest to academics in the fields of South Asian History and
Politics, Gender and genocide, Women and War, Nationalism and
Diaspora and Transnational Studies.
The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh took place as a result of the
region's long history of colonization, the 1947 partition of the
Indian subcontinent into largely Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India,
and the continuation of ethnic and religious politics in Pakistan,
specifically the political suppression of the Bengali people of
East Pakistan. The violence endured by women during the 1971
genocide is repeated in the writing of national history. The
secondary position that women occupy within nationalism is mirrored
in the nationalist narratives of history. This book engages with
the existing feminist scholarship on gender, nationalism and
genocide to investigate the dominant representations of gender in
the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh and juxtaposes the testimonies of
survivors and national memory of that war to create a shift of
perspective that demands a breaking of silence. The author explores
and challenges how gender has operated in service of Bangladeshi
nationalist ideology, in particular as it is represented at the
Liberation War Museum. The archive of this museum in Bangladesh is
viewed as a site of institutionalized dialogue between the 1971
genocide and the national memory of that event. An examination of
the archive serves as an opening point into the ideologies that
have sanctioned a particular authoring of history, which is written
from a patriarchal perspective and insists on restricting women's
trauma to the time of war. To question the archive is to question
the authority and power that is inscribed in the archive itself and
that is the function performed by testimonies in this book.
Testimonies are offered from five unique vantage points - rape
survivor, war baby, freedom fighter, religious and ethnic
minorities - to question the appropriation and omission of women's
stories. Furthermore, the emphasis on the multiplicity of women's
experiences in war seeks to highlight the counter-narrative that is
created by acknowledging the differences in women's experiences in
war instead of transcending those differences. An innovative and
nuanced approach to the subject of treatment and objectification of
women in conflict and post conflict and how the continuing effects
entrench ideas of gender roles and identity, this book will be of
interest to academics in the fields of South Asian History and
Politics, Gender and genocide, Women and War, Nationalism and
Diaspora and Transnational Studies.
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