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Genre/Form: | History Personal narratives |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hameeda Hossain; Amena Mohsin |
ISBN: | 9789384757793 9384757799 |
OCLC Number: | 921863829 |
Description: | xlviii, 369 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: Locating sexual violence and impunity / Meghna Guhthakurta -- Gendered states : a review of the literature on sexual violence and impunity / Dina M. Siddiqi -- The history of sexual violence, impunity and conflict : the Bangladesh context / Amena Mohsin -- Birangona : bearing witness in war and "peace" / Bina D'Costa -- The unbearable tedium of rightslessness / Faustina Pereira -- Medico-legal evidence in rape prosecutions in Bangladesh : legal and policy reform to end impunity / Ishita Dutta -- Bringing women's lives to order : challenging impunity in the community / Hameeda Hossain -- Eighteen : photo essay on Kalpana Chakma's abduction / Shahidul Alam -- Journeys through shadows : gender justice in the Chittagong Hill tracts / Bina D'Costa -- An interview with Maleka Khan / Qurratul Ain Tahmina -- An interview with Nilima Ibrahim / Suraiya Begum -- An interview with Krishna Banerjee / Qurratul Ain Tahmina -- The Birangonas are brave freedom fighters / Keya Chowdhury -- Five case studies of sexual violence on indigenous women in the Chittagong Hill tracts / Ilira Dewan -- Stories of two women survivors of rape in 1971 / Maleka Khan. |
Series Title: | Zubaan series on sexual violence and impunity in South Asia. |
Responsibility: | edited by Hameeda Hossain and Amena Mohsin ; with an introduction by Meghna Guhathakurta. |
Abstract:
Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, Of the Nation Born takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling some of the best writing and research to date on sexual violence and impunity. The book brings together both new and established scholars to look at areas as wide-ranging as the law and its histories, nationalism, memory and sexuality, the status of minorities, religion and its directives, universities as sites of gender-contestation, and more. With an introduction by acclaimed scholar Meghna Guhathakurta, the book offers a comprehensive overview of the situation in Bangladesh from the 1971 war for liberation to the present. Guhathakurta gives readers an excellent entry point for understanding the complex realities of how impunity for the perpetrators of sexual violence has become standard in Bangladesh in particular, and South Asia in general. Of the Nation Born is a valuable cross-disciplinary study and the first of its kind. --
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