Body of War - Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-Up of Yugoslavia

Informationen zum Autor Dubravka Zarkov Klappentext Examines how notions of femininity and masculinity and heterosexual norms produced ethnicity in the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and also looks at how words and images created by the media are just as influential as violent practices in constructin Zusammenfassung Analyses representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s! and in early 1990s during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. This book proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather! ethnicity was produced by the war itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Maternal Body 1. The Whore against the Mother of All Serbs 19 2. Pictures of the Wall of Love 43 3. Troubles with Motherhood 69 Part II. The Victimized Body 4. The Body of All Serbs 85 5. All the Bodies of Croatia 102 6. Sexual Geographies of Ethnicity 116 7. On Victims and Villains 143 8. The Body of the Other Man 155 9. Troubles with the Victim 170 Part III. The Armed Body 10. Soldirs of Tradition 191 11. Troubles with Arms 212 Notes 233 Bibliography 257 Index 281

Product details

• Authors: Dubravka Arkov, Dubravka Zarkov, Dubravka Zarkov
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2007
• EAN: 9780822339557
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3955-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories