The Rape of the Nation: Women Narrativising Genocide

Ronit Lentin

Sociological Research Online, 1999, vol. 4, issue 2, 75-83

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Femininities; Genocide; Masculinities; Personal Narratives; Power; Rape; War (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.254

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