Genders 22: Postcommunism and the Body Politic

by Ellen E. Berry

The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic, changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are eroding or overwhelming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814712479
• ISBN13: 9780814712474
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"