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Author:

Helms, Elissa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006037355

Title:

Innocence and victimhood : gender, nation, and women's activism in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms.

Publisher:

The University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women--Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Women political activists--Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Women human rights workers--Bosnia and Herzegovina.
War victims--Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia and Herzegovina--Social conditions.
Bosnia and Herzegovina--History--1992-
History.
Frau.
Kriegsopfer.
Menschenrecht.
Politisches Handeln.
Bosnien-Herzegowina.
Since 1992
Social history.
War victims.
Women.
Women human rights workers.
Women political activists.
Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index.

Contents:

6. 1. Avoidance and Authenticity: The Public Face of Wartime Rape. 2. Wartime: Gender, Nationalism, and Sexualized Violence -- 3. The NGO Boom: Women's Organizing and Foreign Intervention in the Wake of War -- 4. The Nationing of Gender: Nationalism, Reconciliation, Feminisms -- 5. Politics Is a Whore: Women and the Political -- 6. Avoidance and Authenticity: The Public Face of Wartime Rape.

Series:

Critical human rights

ISBN:

0299295540
9780299295547

OCLC:

(OCoLC)837923597

LCCN:

2013011468

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)