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20th century has been ''a century of wars, global and
local, hot and cold'' (Catherine Lutz).
The course explores the different ways in
which war and political violence are remembered
through a gender lens. Central questions include: what
are the gendered effects of war, political
violence, and militarization? How have wars, genocide and
other forms of political violence been narrated
and represented? How do women remember and narrate
gendered violence in war? How are post-conflict
processes and transitional justice gendered? What is
the relationship between testimony, storytelling, and
healing? How is the relationship between
the ''personal'' and the ''public/national'' reconstructed
in popular culture, film, literature, and
(auto)biographical texts dealing with war, genocide,
and other forms of political violence? How are
wars memorialized and gendered through monuments,
museums, and other memory sites? Besides others,
case studies on Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Rwanda,
former Yugoslavia, and Argentina will be used to
elaborate the key concepts and debates
in the emerging literature on gender,
memory, and war.
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