Gender and Genocide in Cambodia - Surviving Khmer Rouge

This book explores the multiplicity of women's experiences in the Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Historical background 3. Transnational, translation and other feminist methods 4. Trauma, memory, and identity of Cambodian women in diaspora 5. On killing: The Khmer Rouge perpetrator and victim 6. The genocide of the Cham 7. Sexual violence against women 8. Conclusion

About the author

Azra Rashid is an instructor in the Humanities Department at John Abbott College in Montreal and Research Fellow in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Azra's research is focused on testimony and representations of gender in discourses of war including her book Gender, Nationalism and Genocide in Bangladesh: Naristhan/Ladyland (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Azra Rashid
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032413990
• ISBN: 978-1-032-41399-0
• No. of pages: 178
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Mass Violence in Modern History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, South East Asia, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Asian History, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General