Embodiment of Terror
Gendered Violence in Peacetime and Wartime in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2478513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria B Olujic (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-50 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/maq.1998.12.1.31 |
| PMID | 9527973 |
| OpenAlex | W2158760497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 80 |
| References cited | 31 |
Gendered violence is not a special type of torture used only in war. Its roots are well established in peacetime. This article discusses parallels between the patterns of everyday domination and aggression during times of peace and war. Further, it discusses how metaphors and acts of rape in peacetime are transformed into symbols and acts of rape for wartime purposes. During peacetime the individual body, especially its essences -sexuality and reproduction-becomes the symbol of everyday domination and aggression. Wartime transforms individual bodies into social bodies as seen, for example, in genocidal rapes or ethnic cleansing, which are thought to purify the bloodlines. Then, institutions-that is, medical, religious, and government establishments-further reinforce the wartime process by manipulating the individual/social body into the body politic by controlling and defining "human life" and using political rapes to entice military action by the West. The final transformation (at the war's conclusion) is the reformation of the social body back into the individual body, making the individual body once again the focus of dominance and aggression as the acceptable social "order." [war rapes, gender, body folklore, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Aggression · Body politic · Criminology · Human rights · Parallels · Peacetime · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Torture · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 80 |
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| Citations per year | 2,86 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 77 |