Mass Rape

The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Author: Alexandra Stiglmayer
ISBN: 0803242395

Alexandra Stiglmayer interviewed survivors of the continuing war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to reveal, to a seemingly deaf world, the horrors of the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia. The women?primarily of Muslim but also of Croatian and Serbian origin?have endured the atrocities of rape and the loss of loved ones. Their testimony, published in the 1993 German edition, is bare, direct, and its cumulative effect overwhelming. The first English edition contains Stiglmayer's updates to her own two essays, one detailing the historical context of the current conflict and the other presenting the core of the book, interviews with some twenty victims of rape as well as interviews with three Serbian perpetrators. Essays investi-gating mass rape and war from ethnopsychological, sociological, cultural, and medical perspectives are included. New essays by Catharine A. MacKinnon, Rhonda Copelon, and Susan Brownmiller address the crucial issues of recognizing the human rights of women and c

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Publish Date: 1994

Subjects: History / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Sexual Assault/Harassment)