Journal article
“OUR WOMENS”/“THEIR WOMENS” Symbolic Boundaries, Territorial Markers, and Violence in the Balkans
Peace and change, v 20(4), pp 515-529
Oct 1995
Abstract
This essay explores the ways in which traditional gender roles and patriarchal culture play a part in the violent map‐making of ethnonationalism. With special reference to the former Yugoslavia, it looks at how boundaries designed to protect can, at the same time, be barriers to peace and security and tools of exclusion and aggression as women's bodies themselves become boundaries of the nation. Not only are women's bodies symbols of the fecundicity of the nation and the vessels for its reproduction, but they are also territorial markers. The feminization of territorial and symbolic space, however, also suggests a subversive role for women in resisting the imposed boundaries of ethnonationalism and creating alternative identities and spaces.
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- Title
- “OUR WOMENS”/“THEIR WOMENS” Symbolic Boundaries, Territorial Markers, and Violence in the Balkans
- Creators
- Julie Mostov
- Publication Details
- Peace and change, v 20(4), pp 515-529
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Global Studies and Modern Languages; Politics
- Other Identifier
- 991021876349904721