Ideologies of forgetting : rape in the Vietnam War / Gina Marie Weaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weaver, Gina Marie, 1980-

Series:

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape as a weapon of war--Vietnam--History--20th century.

Rape as a weapon of war.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Atrocities.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Rape victims--Vietnam.

Rape victims.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.

Summary:

Rape has long been a part of war, and recent conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur demonstrate that it may be becoming an even more integral strategy of modern warfare. In contrast to the media attention to sexual violence against women in these recent conflicts, however, the incidence and consequences of rape in the Vietnam War have been largely overlooked. Using testimony, oral accounts, literature, and film, Ideologies of Forgetting focuses on the rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam war, and argues that the erasure and elision of these practices of sexual violence in the U.S. popular imagination perpetuates the violent masculinity central to contemporary U.S. military culture. Gina Marie Weaver claims that recognition of this violence is important not just for an accurate historical record, but also to truly understand the Vietnam veteran's trauma, which often stems from his aggression rather than his victimization.

Contents:

Preface : A postwar look at Vietnam

Chap. 1. Silencing : erasure of rape in the Vietnam War

Chap. 2. Vietnamese voices : accounts of war-time sexual trauma

Chap. 3. "Already bullets" : American witnesses to wartime rape and sexual abuse

Chap. 4. Naming themselves : sexual abuse in Vietnam veterans' antiwar literature

Chap. 5. Victimized veterans and disappearing women : the Vietnam War film

Afterword : legacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438430003

1438430000

9781441641021

1441641025

OCLC:

593295901