Innocence and victimhood : gender, nation, and women's activism in postwar bosnia-herzegovina /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Helms, Elissa, author.
Imprint:	Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Description:	xix, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical human rights Critical human rights.
Subject:	Women -- Bosnia and Hercegovina. Women political activists -- Bosnia and Hercegovina. Women human rights workers -- Bosnia and Hercegovina. War victims -- Bosnia and Hercegovina. Social conditions War victims. Women. Women human rights workers. Women political activists. Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Social conditions. Bosnia and Hercegovina -- History -- 1992- Bosnia and Herzegovina. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9855720

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ISBN:	9780299295547 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0299295540 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780299295530 (e-book) 0299295532 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Pronunciation Guide
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Representations: Victims and Peacemakers
2. Wartime: Gender, Nationalism, and Mass Rape
3. The NGO "Boom": Women's Organizing and Foreign Intervention in the Wake of War
4. The "Nation-ing" of Gender: Nationalism, Ethnicity, Reconciliation
5. "Politics Is a Whore": Women and the Political
6. Avoidance and Authenticity: The Public Face of Wartime Rape
Conclusion: Claiming Gendered Victimhood: Limits, Implications, Hopes
Notes
References
Index

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