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

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

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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.