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Women and war in Rwanda : gender, media and the representation of genocide / Georgina Holmes.
Van Pelt Library DT450.435 .H65 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Georgina.
- Series:
- International library of African studies ; v. 39.
- International library of African studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in war.
- Genocide--Social aspects.
- Genocide.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Women.
- Rwanda.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 323 pages 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England ; New york : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
- Contents:
- 1 Contextualizing media events: war and genocide in Rwanda and the east of Congo 13
- Part I The 1994 genocide in Rwanda 14
- Part II 'Ground Zero' 30
- Part III Political voice in Rwanda post-1994 36
- 2 Rwandan women and war 47
- Part I Race hierarchies, new wars and genocide in Africa 51
- Part II Pauline Nyiramasuhuko: the subversive narrative in global politics 78
- Part III International politics of revisionism 83
- 3 Militarizing women, preparing for genocide: Hutu extremist magazine Kangura 1990-94 101
- Part I Gendered images of politics in Rwanda 104
- Part II Kangura and the militarization of the pure Hutu nation state 110
- Part III Citizen versus partial- and non-citizen Rwandan women in Kangura 115
- 4 Newsnight 129
- Part I Genocide or war? Newsnight's silenced debate 130
- Part II Mediatizing Rwandan women 159
- Part III Political manoeuvring 166
- 5 Remembering genocide, forgetting politics: the BBC's institutional narrative post-1994 173
- Part I Remembering genocide 174
- Part II Forgetting politics 199
- Part III The BBC in Rwanda 207
- 6 'Living on gold should be a blessing, instead it is a curse': mass rape in the Congo 221
- Part I Genocide by attrition 223
- Part II British and American Congo atrocity narratives 240
- Part III Mediatized conflict in the Great Lakes region 248
- Part IV Congolese women speak out 258.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-315) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780763477
- 1780763476
- OCLC:
- 819520960
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