Gender and Catastrophe

Part Genders and genocides: introduction - (en)gendering genocides, Ronit Lentin genocide and gender - a split memory, Joan Ringelheim. Part II Women in a war zone - the construction of gendered identities: against the war - women organizing themselves in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Rada Boric rape, power and masculinity - the construction of gender and national identities in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Euan Hague reconstructing the self through memories of violence among Mayan Indian women war widows, Jusith Zur the mother of all warriors - women in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Lorraine Dowler. Part III Captured subjects - dis-placing women's bodies: a question of silence - partition, women and the state, Urvashi Butalia China's final solution -…