CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Banjeglav, Tamara |
|---|---|
| Title | Gender, Nation, Rape. Intersections of Gender and Ethnic Violence during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Summary | The thesis tries to explain the differences between the global, local, and individual discourses about Bosnian war rapes. It deals with rape as a form of warfare that appeared during the war in former Yugoslavia. It challenges both the gender and ethnic approaches to the violence, as it tries to show that both of these views on rape are selective and do not provide a complete picture. Both of them collectivise victims of rape, one by gender and the other by ethnicity, thus subordinating the individual to the collective. The thesis shows this by contrasting the discourses which highlighted the victimization of women (but ignored the fact that men, too, were raped during the war in Bosnia) with those which looked at it only through categories of nation or ethnicity, so that women were portrayed as nameless and faceless members of a particular national or ethnic group. |
| Supervisor | Bieber, Florian; Helms, Elissa |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/banjeglav_tamara.pdf |
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