The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

Author/Contributor(s):	Mookherjee, Nayanika
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	10/30/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this ethnography of sexual violence during the 1971 Bangladesh War for Independence, Nayanika Mookherjee shows how the public celebration of the hundreds of thousands of rape victims--called "birangonas" by the state--works to homogenize and silence the experiences of these women.