Sexuality after War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

Mo?nik, Nena

ISBN 10: 1138293695 / ISBN 13: 9781138293694

Published by Routledge, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sexuality after War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138293695
• ISBN 13: 9781138293694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book examines the potential impact of rape survivors’ traumatic experiences in post-conflict zones. With specific attention given to the experiences of women who were sexually abused during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, it addresses the sexuality of survivors, which has so far been inadequately researched, and challenges the stereotypical and victimized images and narrations that have so far prevailed in academic and public discourse about women survivors while exploring the effects of those narratives on the political, social and economic status of the survivors themselves.

Methodologically innovative, the book questions the processes of re-victimization that can follow fieldwork with survivors and introduces the theoretical and practical foundations of applied drama and community theater as a research approach in this field, revealing its potential as a means of expressing a range of ethnographic, anthropological and case-study research findings. Based on the narratives of advocates, scholars and different social stakeholders, together with new drama-based methodologies employed directly with survivors, Sexuality after War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research offers a sensitive and ethically-responsible research approach to contesting assumptions about the sexualities of survivors of sexual violence and revealing the emancipatory potential of testifying.

This book will appeal to scholars of sociology and gender studies, victimology and sexuality.

About the Author

Nena Močnik holds a PhD in Balkan Studies (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). She is a postdoctoral researcher at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and researcher at SELMA, Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, Turku, Finland.