Living Without Democracy and Peace

Violence Against Women in the Former Yugoslavia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12436670
AutoresVesna Nikolić-Ristanović (Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research, Yugoslavia), Vesna Nikolić–ristanović (0000-0001-5882-2662, Institute of Criminological & Sociological Research, autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen5
Número1
Páginas63-80
Fecha de publicación1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778019922181158
PMID31454869
OpenAlexW2113477936
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas1

In this article, violence against women in the former Yugoslavia is analyzed, with special emphasis on the influence of war, nationalism, and militarism on its occurrence. Violence against women in both war and areas that were not directly influenced by conflict are examined. Its main aim is to illustrate how militarism and nationalism-as contradictions to democracy-decrease the safety of women and shape their vulnerability in more variant ways, and with more traumatic consequences, than occur in societies with long traditions of democracy and during so called peacetimes. Special attention is drawn to the sexual, physical, and psychological violence against women in war and refuge, as well as to domestic and other forms of violence in areas not directly affected by war. Criminalization of society and inappropriate formal social control, consequences of both the war and a lack of democracy, are seen as generators of insecurity and victimization of women in the areas that are not directly influenced by conflict

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