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The body of war : media, ethnicity, and gender in the break-up of Yugoslavia / Dubravka Zarkov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Žarkov, Dubravka, 1958-
- Series:
- Next wave.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Next wave
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in mass media.
- Women and war--Former Yugoslav republics.
- Women and war.
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Women.
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
- Mass media and war--Former Yugoslav republics.
- Mass media and war.
- Ethnicity--Former Yugoslav republics.
- Ethnicity.
- Nationalism--Former Yugoslav republics.
- Nationalism.
- Former Yugoslav republics--Ethnic relations.
- Former Yugoslav republics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines how notions of femininity and masculinity and heterosexual norms produced ethnicity in the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and also looks at how words and images created by the media are just as influential as violent practices in constructin
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The maternal body
- The whore against the mother of all Serbs
- Pictures of the wall of love
- Troubles with motherhood
- The victimized body
- The body of all Serbs
- All the bodies of Croatia
- Sexual geographies of ethnicity
- On victims and villains
- The body of the other man
- Troubles with the victim
- The armed body
- Soldiers of tradition
- Troubles with arms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923470
- 9780822339557
- 0822339552
- 9781282923478
- 1282923471
- OCLC:
- 271168132
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