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The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the
Break-up of Yugoslavia
Dubravka ®arkov
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296 pages (September 2007)
15 illustrations
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In The Body of War, Dubravka ®arkov analyzes
representations of female and male bodies in the
Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in
the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia
disintegrated. ®arkov proposes that the Balkan war was
not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was
produced by the war itself. ®arkov explores the
process through which ethnicity was generated, showing
how lived and symbolic female and male bodies became
central to it. She does not posit a direct causal
relationship between hate speech published in the
press during the mid-1980s and the acts of violence in
the war. Instead, she argues that both the
representational practices of the "media war" and the
violent practices of the "ethnic war" depended on
specific, shared notions of femininity and
masculinity, norms of (hetero)sexuality, and
definitions of ethnicity.
Tracing the links between the war and press
representations of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality,
®arkov examines the media's coverage of two major
protests by women who explicitly identified themselves
as mothers, of sexual violence against women and men
during the war, and of women as militants. She draws
on contemporary feminist analyses of violence to
scrutinize international and local feminist writings
on the war in former Yugoslavia. Demonstrating that
some of the same essentialist ideas of gender and
sexuality used to produce and reinforce the
significance of ethnic differences during the war
often have been invoked by feminists, she points out
the political and theoretical drawbacks to grounding
feminist strategies against violence in ideas of
female victimhood.
"Theoretically sophisticated and passionately argued,
The Body of War shows how women's (and men's) bodies
are implicated in the war in former Yugoslavia and its
aftermath. Dubravka ®arkov courageously goes where
others have feared to tread, rejecting too-easy
assumptions that this was just a conflict between
ethnic groups. Her book is a 'must read' for anyone
interested in the ways gender and sexuality intersect
to produce differences in ethnicity, thereby creating
the pretext and the context for conflict and
war."Kathy Davis, author of The Making of Our Bodies,
Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders
"Dubravka ®arkov's remarkable book brings new insights
to bear on the feminist theorizing of war. Nuanced,
complex, lucid, and empirically grounded, ®arkov's
powerful combination of the insider's understanding,
passion, and emotional attachment with the academic's
distance and rigor, makes this a hard-to-put-down
read."Urvashi Butalia, author of The Other Side of
Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
Dubravka ®arkov is an Associate Professor in Gender,
Conflict, and Development Studies at the Institute of
Social Studies in The Hague. She is a coeditor of The
Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities, and
International Peacekeeping and an associate editor of
Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology.
Table of Contents
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
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