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The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia

The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia

Zarkov, Dubravka

Paperback

Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

General Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0822339668
ISBN13: 9780822339663
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 3 2007
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.69 Width: 7.07 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
In The Body of War, Dubravka Zarkov 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. Zarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was produced by the war itself. Zarkov 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.

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