Women, Violence and War : Wartime Victimization of Refugees in the Balkans / ed. by Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blagojevic, Marina, Contributor.

Konstantinovic-Vilic, Slobodanka, Contributor.

Konstantinovie-Vilic, Slobodanka, Contributor.

Mrvic-Petrovic, Natasa, Contributor.

Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna, Contributor.

Nikolić-Ristanović, Vesna, Editor.

Stevanovic, Ivana, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.) : Appendicies

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Based on interviews with seventy women refugees, Women, Violence and War is a book about war as it is seen, lived and interpreted by women who were citizens of the former Yugoslavia. Many of the accounts portray the horrific experiences the victims had to face and the book addresses issues of sexual, physical and psychological violence, as well as problems of confinement, upheaval and family separation. In a completely new insight the book dispels the myth that many of the women were peasants, and shows that in fact they were educated, middle-class women with independent careers. The study also depicts how some of the victims attempt to come to terms with the aftermath of wartime abuse. This probing, accurate and unique investigation of victimization is an unparalleled volume that presents a completely new perspective maintaining that violence against women in war is not independent of peace-time victimization and the imbalance of power between sexes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Serbian edition

Introduction to the English edition

CHAPTER 1 A brief history of the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina (from its origins to the 1995 Dayton peace accords)

CHAPTER 2 Definitions of violence in war and the experience of women: the subject of research

CHAPTER 3 The method and the sample—a contribution to the feminist critique of methodology

CHAPTER 4 Sexual violence

CHAPTER 5 The Hague Tribunal and rape in the former Yugoslavia

CHAPTER 6 Physical abuse and homicide

CHAPTER 7 Psychological violence and fear in war, and their consequences for the psychological health of women

CHAPTER 8 Separation and dissolution of the family

CHAPTER 9 Life in refuge—changes in socioeconomic and familial status

CHAPTER 10 Social acceptance and the difficulty of adapting to a new environment

CHAPTER 11 Strategies of support and help

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Who are the women who have spoken?

Appendix 2. A sample of their stories and letters

Bibliography

List of contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)

ISBN:

9789633865491

9633865492