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Author Žarkov, Dubravka, 1958-

Title The body of war : media, ethnicity, and gender in the break-up of Yugoslavia / Dubravka Žarkov
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations
Series Next wave
Next wave (Duke University Press)
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction -- The maternal body -- The whore against the mother of all Serbs -- Pictures of the wall of love -- Troubles with motherhood -- The victimized body -- The body of all Serbs -- All the bodies of Croatia -- Sexual geographies of ethnicity -- On victims and villains -- The body of the other man -- Troubles with the victim -- The armed body -- Soldiers of tradition -- Troubles with arms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-280) and index
Notes English
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Subject Women in mass media.
Women and war -- Former Yugoslav republics
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Women
Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
Mass media and war -- Former Yugoslav republics
Ethnicity -- Former Yugoslav republics
Nationalism -- Former Yugoslav republics
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Women in mass media
Mass media and war
Nationalism
Women
Women and war
SUBJECT Former Yugoslav republics -- Ethnic relations
Subject Kosovo (Republic)
Serbia
Yugoslavia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822390183
0822390183
1282923471
9781282923478
9786612923470
6612923474