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The Rape of the Nation: Women Narrativising Genocide

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  • Ronit Lentin

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In this article I will firstly argue that genocide and wars are gendered but also often feminised via the positioning of women not only as sexual trophies exchangeable between male enemies, not only as markers of collective boundaries, but also as the symbolic representations of national and ethnic collectivities. I will then interrogate the centrality of rape as a component of ethno-sexual identities and an instrument of war, focusing on the difficulties we have ëas womení but also as social scientists, to theorise wartime rape. Finally I will propose that creating a forum for women war victims to narrativise their traumatic experiences is a vital feminist strategy of beginning to close the gap between genocide and gender and between trauma and the discourses available to narrate it.

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  • Ronit Lentin, 1999. "The Rape of the Nation: Women Narrativising Genocide," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 4(2), pages 75-83, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:4:y:1999:i:2:p:75-83
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.254
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    1. Pushpa Kanagaratnam & Joanna Anneke Rummens & Brenda TonerVA, 2020. "“We Are All Alive . . . But Dead†: Cultural Meanings of War Trauma in the Tamil Diaspora and Implications for Service Delivery," SAGE Open, , vol. 10(4), pages 21582440209, October.
    2. Fidelma Ashe, 2006. "Gendering the Holy Cross School Dispute: Women and Nationalism in Northern Ireland," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 54(1), pages 147-164, March.

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