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Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Citation:
Skjelsbaek, Inger. 2006. “Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Feminism & Psychology 16 (4): 373-403. doi:10.1177/0959353506068746.
Author: Inger Skjelsbaek
Abstract:
This article presents a narrative analysis of interviews with five women who were victims of rape during the Bosnian war. By giving a voice to women who have experienced such an ordeal and letting them position their experiences, we gain insight into the diverse impacts that war rapes have on different victims, their families and relationships. The narrative analysis makes it possible to analyze the war-rape experiences as unique and different from other war-trauma experiences, while simultaneously recognizing the totality in which the war rapes occurred.
Keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Gender, narrative analysis, sexual violence
Topics: Armed Conflict, Gender, Women, Health, Trauma, Sexual Violence, Rape, SV against Women Regions: Europe, Balkans, Eastern Europe Countries: Bosnia & Herzegovina
Year: 2006
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