The voices of war heroines : : sexual violence, testimony, and the Bangladesh liberation war / / by Fayeza Hasanat.

• Superior document: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; Volume 21
• VerfasserIn: Hasanat, Fayeza S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; Volume 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (151 pages)
• Notes: With its focus on wartime sexual violence, this book examines the traumatic memories of wartime rape in context of contemporary theories of war. The translated testimonials of the raped women of the Bangladesh war emphasize the importance of critical discussion on gendered violence, war trauma, and the restructuring of policies regarding recovery and rehabilitation of the war victims, especially in the global South.

Examining the experiences of the wartime rape survivors of Bangladesh from the perspective of social theory of trauma, this book reads the testimonies of war heroines as documented by Neelima Ibrahim (1921-2002) and argues that, even though their trauma was not represented in a manner to invoke coll...