Gender and Genocide in Cambodia

This book explores the multiplicity of women's experiences in the Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge.

Autorentext

Azra Rashid is an instructor in the Humanities Department at John Abbott College in Montreal and Research Fellow in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Azra's research is focused on testimony and representations of gender in discourses of war including her book Gender, Nationalism and Genocide in Bangladesh: Naristhan/Ladyland (2018).

Klappentext

This book explores the multiplicity of women's experiences in the Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Historical background 3. Transnational, translation and other feminist methods 4. Trauma, memory, and identity of Cambodian women in diaspora 5. On killing: The Khmer Rouge perpetrator and victim 6. The genocide of the Cham 7. Sexual violence against women 8. Conclusion